Powhiri

Coming early to school on Monday was a day that the Yr 7 and 8 Kapa Haka group had a Powhiri in school. Sadly some kids had to go to tech. Plenty of us came extra early to get ready for this event. Miss Tito got all of the girls and boys ready. First we had a practice of the 4 items we would be performing on the day. Getting in our places, trying to get ready. It was time to perform. Our powhiri was for welcoming the visitors from Wake Forest University.

I felt nervous getting on stage because it is very freaky. Before we got started with our first waiata, there were classes sitting down and staring at us. Wairua Tapu was our first song. Feki had to do the prayer and Tevita did the mihi. Our 4 songs were Wairua Tapu, Karanga Mai Ra, E Minaka and Ma Te Kahukura.

After our first song the visitors started singing. Performing on Monday was much better than going to tech. I was getting lost behind everyone while doing the actions. Concentrating on these actions and the crowd is very difficult for me.

This was the first event that we ever had as a Kapa Haka group this year. We didn’t even have this event before Miss Tito even came to Pt England School. This is the first powhiri that we had at Pt England School while the year 7 and 8 students are at this school.
We were still cold even when we were performing because the doors were open and we didn’t even wear our jackets. It would of been better and warmer if we had worn our jacket. Trying to perform in cold weather without wearing jackets is dumb because we were shivering before we even performed for the visitors.