Comments on: Papakura Marae Trip

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:17:22 +0000

Hi Carmel

Thanks for coming to our site. Also ofcourse we are the best! Is Malcolm coming on?

-Jennifer

By: Carmel

Carmel — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 09:20:47 +0000

Hi room 29….your blog is looking fantastic! I am so impressed with your level of thinking, and your ability to add to each other’s posts is excellent. I thought your use of simile when discussing the shining cuckoo proverb was a great way to visualise, or see, the proverb in a number of different ways.
I have also enjoyed reading about your responses to the trip to the marae. It is good to know you learnt some new skills, as well as became familiar with many protocols. I wish I’d been able to visit with you. Keep up the deep thinking, and your thoughtful responses.
Carmel
PS Room 29 is THE BEST!!!

By: lorraine ( brittany's auntie)

lorraine ( brittany's auntie) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:47:32 +0000

Hi I have just read your descriptions of your trip to Papakura Marae. It sounds like you all had heaps of fun. Brittany has shown me how to weave a flax flower. In fact she has woven four flowers for me and I have them in a vase in my kitchen.They are lovely.
The poi and the different Maori games that you all learnt sound interesting and fun.
I look forward to reading more of your responses on the happenings of Room 29.

Bye for now.
Lorraine Skinner. (Brittany’s Aunt).

By: Gabbi L

Gabbi L — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:56:58 +0000

I learnt that each and every carving and Tukutuku panel represent stories and the ancestors of the Tangata Whenua. Every carving means and is a part of one or more of the Tangata Whenua. Some roles I noticed in the Powhiri were the Kai Karanga and the Kai Korero. Some of the responsibilities that go with the role of the Kai Karanga are calling the Manuhiri onto the Marae. She is clearing a path for the Manuhiri to walk. The Kai Karanga is always a female. Some of the responsibilities that go with the role of the Kai Korero are speaking and welcoming the Manuhiri onto their Marae. The Kai Korero is always a male. At the Marae the activity I enjoyed the most was the Poi. I enjoyed the Poi because I re-learnt the Poi dance.

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:36:02 +0000

I learnt lot things at the marae, such as most the things has roles, and it was the flacks and the string tricks. For example, if you put a piece of flax through the other one the wrong way, the whole thing will look weird. I also learnt manuhiri are the people that come to the marae. I learnt that the manuhiri needs to take their shoes off inside the marae because it is the rules.
The best things I liked were the string games, because I learnt lots of new ways of making cool things with strings. You do this by your self.

By: jackliu

jackliu — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:22:02 +0000

i lernt about that you cant turn your back when you put down a gift and you got to keep looking at the person and the poi makes the worriors wrist strong and i learnt the tangata whenua welcomes you to the maroe and the responsibitity for the tangata whenua is to clear the bad spirits to let the manuhiri to come safely to the maroe i enjoyed the poi because it helped my wrist sronger.
jackliu

By: Micaela .H.

Micaela .H. — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:17:16 +0000

What I Learnt At the Marae:

The last time I went to a Marae I learned the Tuku Tuku panels are a way of telling a story and so do the patens and the ancestors.

When you do the poi’s it makes your wrist stronger and when you do the figure of 8 you don’t use your arm or elbow you use your wrist and that helps you get faster at flax weaving.

I enjoyed the Marae activities, because I learnt a lot more about Mori culture and I liked it how I was there to support the Mori culture.

Micaela .H.

By: Oliver RD

Oliver RD — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:13:26 +0000

I learnt about the maori kings and how the threads go through the eye of the needle and if we crossed over with another class we would be the tangata whenua.

The woman, who was the kai karanga had the reponsiblities to call the karanga and ot take the manuhiri in safely.

The kai korero’s role is to speak in the wharenui and welcome us onto the wharenui, talking about his ancestors.

I enjoyed the Rakau most, because I enjoyed the music and usibg the Rakau. Rakau was originally used to stregthen wrists, used by warriors for hand/eye co-ordination.

Oliver RD

By: Brittany

Brittany — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:28:40 +0000

What I though about the trip.

I really liked this marae trip. Two things that I liked the most was the poi and the flax because when I was doing the poi I learnt what they use to use it for in the olden days e.g they use to use it to make their arms and wrist stronger when they went off to war, and the flax they use to use it to make stuff like bags to carry things in like food and they could also use the flax if someone had hurt themselves. If some one had hurt a foot what they did was they would get a piece of flax from down the bottom of the plant where it is the hardest and they would attach it to the leg with a softer bit to give the leg support.

I liked being a part of the tanga tewhenua while we were there because I learned more Maori protocol and I also liked the way that everybody said there mihi because we don’t get to do that every day.

I hope everybody else liked the trip as much as I did.

Brittany:)

By: jock

jock — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:25:36 +0000

Hello,

I enjoyed the whole marae trip because I leaned more about the Maori culture to put on me and Hamish’s board and it is done but all we need to do is write the instructions any way I loved the flax weaving I had help the fist time but on my second one I did it by myself.

Now the string games I could not do because the string kept falling off my middle finger but I just kept trying and trying, the knucklebones were cool as I got up to scramble, which is the highest level.

I liked how the Maori weaving on the walls how they were like crosses they made it easier to do them so we would draw a strait picture and then change it with the crosses on them so they would look the same as the ones on the wall.

It was quite good to see how the Maori danced (I needed a little more practice) I liked it how the men did the poi with rocks so they could have really strong wrists so they could use the spear and I think it was like a club as well.

The Rocco I think it is called that well I liked to here about how the Maoris used it to also make there wrists stronger to use those skills for battle and maybe for dances like the haka.