Our Marae Trip

                       Our Marae Trip

On the 5th of March our class and room 8 went on a trip to our local Marae in
Arahura. It was fun learning about all the different stories during that time.
On that morning Charlie and Nathan J and I were driven down to the Marae
by my mum. All of us got our groups ready to go down to the Marae.
We headed off to the car we were taking, packed our gear and off we went.

Firstly

It took about 25 minutes to get down to the marae. Just before the intersection
in Arahura we turn left up in to the old Christchurch road. The car trip was
boring but we were excited when we got there. We unpacked the car and
waited for the others. When we all got there we entered around the main
gates then the powhiri process started.

The Powhiri Process

As we enter the gates the Tangata whenua called the greeting and then
Miss Ireland called back because is  after that we got welcome onto the
marae and we all sat down into the seats in side the marae and we sang
honore. After we done the Powhiri process we had to do the hongi (The
hongi is when you touch foreheads and sometimes noses) then we had
morning tea. After morning tea we went back into the meeting house and we
said all of our mihi’s (our self greeting).

This is one of the things we did on the marae trip in Arahura.
I personally liked the marae trip because it was excited and fun.