⛺Whanaungatanga Experience ⛺

WALT: reflect on our Whanaungatanga Experience...

2 weeks a go on Thursday & Friday the year 7 & 8 Kia Manawanui Syndicate went on a trip to the 2017 ASB Polyfest! We experienced all sorts which will be talked about, and presented on the presentation yet to be viewed. As you read through my presentation you will not only find that I am or will be talking about the sleepover, we had on Thursday on the Panmure Lagoon Trip we had on Friday! I will be talking about my highlight, my thoughts on what we should've done and what it could've helped us with and many more things not only yet to be listed but also yet to be read.

Something I found challenging was choosing a food to choose! There were so many option and my mouth and stomach was hungry for them all but for some reason I felt like 1 food choice would've been enough!

Something I liked and look forward to doing, was experiencing more cultural performances, and also more traditional cultural food also.

Have you ever been to Polyfest? Or A SleepOver, Or a Lagoon Pools Trip with your school, or Year cluster?

If you have, or If YES please comment below about your highlight of food, and performances, sleeping arrangement, and also swimming highlights !!!

INDIVIDUAL SHORT REFLECTIONS...!!

Polyfest:

For Polyfest I was with or in the group which belonged to the teacher Miss Aireen. The peers, or classmates that I was in the same group was...

• Irys
• Ana
• Kauri
• Curtys
• Rosemary
• Lovely

I really enjoyed working with these people mainly, because I don't have much in common with, or they are people I don't usually work with in other words.

The highlight of Polyfest I enjoyed or I mainly liked, was getting the opportunity to see cultural performances, traditional food, and also drawings, and taking photo's inside the photo booths! 

One thing I wished we could've done was come back as a year 7/8 Syndicate on Saturday to watch more of different cultural performances!!

Sleepover:

Wih the sleep over we did many different activites, team building activities where we had to create s kit using a line, and a object in our play.. Eating Dinner, and having a FieFia night, which was giving other students, and people opportunities to come of their shell and showcase who they really are!

Heaps of people stepped out of their comfort zone, and showed who they really were/are! For example Lovey, Jose, Irys and many people!

We all performed differently! Some people sang songs, or karaokes, or even did sing alongs? I myself performed a song by Beyonce which was Love On Top!

We were settled into bed! Well I was settled into a tent with 3 different other girls.. which were,

1. Frances
2. Ana
3. Irys

We had heaps of fun, talking, laughing, smiling and making unforgettable memories I would've never forgotten!

Lagoon Pools:

We got their got changed, and straight was given the safety talk! We all understood and straight away began group races! After group races, we had free time, for the rest of the day! We had breaks, with ice blocks and sausage sizzles!

It was the end of the day, which felt so fast!

I've written really short reflections, because in my presentation more detail, and more explaining would've been done!

Please leave a comment below...

Many Thanks!

🇹🇴Edgewater College's Tongan Practice🇹🇴

IALT: reflect on how I was able to attend Edgewater College's Tongan Practice!

Today for me was a very exciting day, I was able to have the greatest opportunity to travel to Edgewater College, and watch them practice and perform their Tongan Practice. I was excited to see there performances, knowing I myself is an Tongan girl also, yet to become something I would like to become as I get older, and experince more.The 2 different types of performers there doing is a So'oke, and a Ma'ulu'ulu. The reason why I went was because my older sister apart of this group! As we were on the way, I was excited seeing how Edgewater College works, espically how I MIGHT be attending that school. I felt that if I was attending that school, I guess I would have a preview of the way they practice  for Polyfest. Not only that also that I would already meet a few people that may or may not be my college classmates/friends. Honestly, I was nervous first hearing that myself, my mother, father and my little brother Amon would being going to Ma'asi (My Sister's) Tongan Practice, for Polyfest! I was excited, because I had joined a type of Tongan Group but just for our church, with some performances.

As we drove into the Edgewater College I was looking forward to seeing heaps of different things, and meeting new people! It was really boring at first, but then it was little entertaining. We got there and practice had just began.. there loud drums, big little sticks and students. They jumped up and down with sticks, and it was a very energetic active performance. Something I enjoyed while watching their performance was seeing the focus, determination, and cooperation all the students were putting into their performance, in order to make this performance, a hard working performance. Amon my little brother, and I got bored and HUNGRY so we decided to walk to the shop and have a bite to eat. On your way back from the shop, we clashed into my sisters (Sophia & Sydney), so we hopped into the car with them, and went back to the shop and basically, ate and bought more food. When we got back they were still practicing, but after a bit like 15 minutes or so they had finished their practice and as I looked over ti the left side of their practice there was all sorts of YUMMY, delicious food to eat, and drink!

We all ate different things, from sausages, to pizza, to chicken all the way to fizzy drinks, and OTAI! It was then the end of the day, and yet to come was home sweet home. Finally as hopped into the car cruising back home, my window was down and air felt as if t was running, and keeping up with me! 

We were home and I was exhausted straight to sleep on the couch!



Something I found very hard to do while being there was meeting other people, and getting to know them, but luckily I was able to meet a few students! I was able to make small talk with them, and find out new different things about them!

If you were in a group for Polyfest, would you show commitment, and determination? Also WHY?

Please leave a comment below,
Many Thanks