Welcoming the Malama Honua waka

On Monday the 25th of March, 2014. It was a cold morning as Rooms 7, half of room  8, 9 and 10 made our way to the Point England reserve, Panmure, Auckland. We went there to welcome the waka that was coming from Hawaii. We walked to the reserve and by the time we got there I was very tired but I still managed to keep going. It was quite a long walk too. All the Manaiakalani schools were there and there were over 2000 people/children. The Hawai’ian voyagers came over on the waka which sailed all the way from Hawaii to Auckland, NZ. It would have taken weeks for them to come here.  

When all of the Manaiakalani schools were here we all sat down and listened to what the schools had to say. We all had to stand up and sing/dance to Eho rare with a lot of pride while the people were on their way. When we saw them coming from the other side that is when we started to sing and do the actions. The people had come to the shore and got into a queue, some of the people were a light verdant green and the others were wearing brown. When they came to shore we all sat down.

Some people from schools and the Hawaiian voyagers did some speeches about our ancestors and how we are the children of the navigators. I didn't really get what they meant until they kept on talking about it. When everyone finished doing the speeches we all stood up again and sang He Honore. As we all started to finish all the schools went down to the beach and gave the Hawaiian voyages a high five to say bye. It was fun getting quite a lot of high fives in one day. When we all lined up and getting ready to leave the reserve, we sat down in two lines after everyone got high fives. When we were out of the reserve, instead of going the long way we went through the bush walk and it was faster and better than the other way.

When  we got to school everyone was tired from walking,

I felt as tired as a sloth but I still had a fun day representing our school and doing something fun.





This is my News paper clipping that I made, it couldn't fit my whole story so I put my real story with it. It was interesting learning how to make a real looking News paper clipping.