Kapa Haka 2020

Yesterday on November 18th 2020 we had Moana Syndicate Kapa Haka. We did the peformance at the show grounds in Gisborne. As soon as I arrived at school, I went into class to put my bag up and I see lines of people, they were lining up to get their moko on. So a moko is a traditional Maori piece of face art. Anyway after twenty minutes or so I got to the front of the line, the cold piece of ink pushed against my face, then I went to the other seat looked straight ahead and the ink pressed against my face like a pillow when I'm tired. After that we played around outside for a bit and then the bell rung. We headed to the hall to get our outfits on. After that We got on the bus to get going.

We did a bit of practicing and then we went on stage. We got behind some curtains and had to wait three minutes before we could go on the stage, with my heart pounding we stood up and walked up the stairs onto the stage. Everyone was clapping, I wasn't too nervous because I was with 100 other people. We sang the first song which was E Te Ariki, then we sang Utaina. Then the Utaina Haka whic is the point where the boys move up to do the haka. We did the haka and it hurt like I slapped my chest and arms harder then I ever have. Then we sung Rona three times and wainui e and done.

We left the stage and people loved our peformance even I'd say we were better then any of the other schools, like I'm not joking the peformance after ours was a bunch of kindergarteners. On the way back to school I had my eardrums burst with the noise of the songs. Then we got back to school and I was tired.