Pacifica Mamas

Ki-ora bloggers.

On Wednesday the 13th of November to whole of the middle school in Waikowhai when to the Corbans trip. We did drums, made leis and did a dance at the end.

 My favourite part of the session was  the drums because we got to play. The other part that I like about the drums was we got to see who was better out of the girls and boys. Unfortunately boys lost and girls won, just because we carried on when we were meant to stop. Did you know people used the drums like a bell to send a message to tell the people in the village that something bad is happening and they used them as protectors of the village in the past. We used the Pacifica drums. The drums that we got to use were a log drum and shark drum. It is called that  because the part that you hit is made out of shark skin.

 I also like the dance. Fox told us the way to dance in a Hawaiian way. Jacinda told the girls how to dance in Hawaiian as well. For the boys we dance like the Cook Island way and the girls Jacinda did it the Samoan way. I enjoyed dancing. It was so fun doing the dance.

 Finally leis, it was fun and what I learnt was that when you make leis you have to give it to somebody. We put flowers and straws on the string in a pattern and then once we were done we tied the ends together. I am giving my lei to my Uncle Tony because he is in the hospital.

We had lots of fun as you can tell. 

Do you feel like going now I have told you some thing that we did there?

Blog ya later :-)