My Grand mothers funeral

Last Monday night at 8:00pm my Grand mother passed away. Hearing about this made everyone in my family sad, so the next day I missed school and went to Manurewa to go to her funeral. It was really sad and not to mention family members had been having a tough time since my grand mother passed away. This has affected my mum and my mum’s sister’s and brothers, also my mums cousins, aunties and uncles.

On Wednesday morning we left to head to Coromandel so we had to wake up early at 7:30am and left at 10:00am. My aunty, two sisters, my brother and I went with my grand mother all the way to Coromandel and began the trip. We stopped at many gas station because they had to get gas. Also my uncle brought us chips at the gas station as well as a drink because we were thirsty and hungry at the same time. Finally we got their.My nan had to call us in. I had to carry my great grand father who passed away last year and got cremated. Everyone was sobbing even my mum and my 2 aunties. After all the family has passed through and seen her. We went to have a feed.

It was Thursday morning I just came back with my sister’s and brother’s from my aunties house down on the beach. It was the day when we were going to bury my nan down at the utupah in Coromandel. It was upsetting to see her in this position. Before she passed she was really sick in the hospital.I wonder how her baby boy is going to feel when he grows up and finds out that his mother has passed away. Then he will be visiting his mother and in a sad way. He was screaming his head of at the tangi. It was time to bury here everyone had a chance to speak even her children and even her sisters,brothers,cousins,auntie’s and uncle’s had a koreo with her. It has been a tough road for our family because my great grand father died last year and every one was there at his funeral and I hope everyone will come to his evaling in Mania.

It was time to go home. Everyone stopped at Mac Donalds for lunch in Thames. While the kids and I were waiting we roamed around the mall. When the adults were ready we had a big feed. When we were finished we went to the park. Soon we were on our way home to Manurewa. We had a second feed and started to go home because the adults were drinking so some of the kids had to go home.

We had a great time. Even we had plenty of sleep and food to eat so we didn’t starve and we were not tired either. This has been a very important 4 days to miss school.