Te Tuhi - #Trip3 Reflection

IALT: reflect on what we did during our time with Te Tuhi.

It was final visit to the Te Tuhi Art Gallery located in Pakuranga for our lesson on.. role play and poster making. When we first arrived, we met up with Salome, and she directed us to the room where we would be performing our role plays in front of our peers, and teacher.

Our next step from there was to separate with our groups, find a space inside the area of where we were presenting, and have those 'final practices'. We had about a good 5-10 minutes of practice time before gathering up as a class and performing to each other our skits/role plays.

When we gathered back as one.. our group kindly volunteered to go first. At first it was honestly nerve racking to be known as the group who was the first group up, and had to set the bar real high and set a good example. Anyways, as we performed through our skit Miss Komor kindly recorded it which is here for for you to watch (below). 

As you can see we started off with a brief description on what our play/skit was about... which was basically just to help paint and form a picture in our audiences head.

When I was presenting my biggest struggle/challenge, was making eye contact with the audience. Everytime I looked up I saw more than 2 pairs of eyes.. which was a bit freaky, So I took deep breaths in and out and continued in performing with my group.

Though I really enjoyed performing and presenting to my peers and teacher something cultural, and something that reflects me and my past.

Then we began a reflection task for the posters we created during our time at Te Tuhi, which was done after our skit/role plays. Take a look below...

What are your thoughts? 

Please leave a comment down below.

Muchly Appreciated,

Te Tuhi - Script Writing

IALT; reflect, blog, and share with you the script we wrote as a group of 4 for our final Te Tuhi trip.

Before attending our final lesson out of our 3 visits this tem to Te Tuhi, our final task for the final lesson was to create a script of a role play about anything. The choice was ours. But before that group organization came first.. we had to place ourselves into a group of 4 members maximum. No less than, or more than 4. Anyways with the group I was apart of came..

• Ana
• Falakiko
• Akanesi

We decided to base our role play on something we all have in common, which we found to be... cuture. We all came from the same place.. 'Tonga'. So we thought about what we all do... and church came up. Then we thought of Sunday school. So then we started brainstorming and our finished idea was talking, reading and explaining what we learn in Sunday school. With Falakiko playing the roll of the Sunday school teacher, and as me, Akanesi, and Ana play the role of his 3 students it might for other students to understand what we can learn in Sunday school.

Anyways, when we were crafting our performances, lines, actions, and all these different expressions came in. It was difficult for some of the people of our team but we made it through.

With our skit, it was a mixture of both the English, and Tongan language. That way the non-tongan speakers/understanders will be able to understand what we are saying.

But here is our written script..

What are your thoughts on what we may need to work on in regards to this script?

However, if you would like to access and watch the finished product of our performance at the Te Tuhi Art Gallery, stay tuned for more of my reflection on our final lesson!

Muchly Appreciated,