kapa haka

We were on the stage ready to perform.  I had butterflies in my stomach. Koka Sue (guitarist) started  playing the guitar and we started singing Etairiki, once we finished everyone clapped and then Bay (kaia) said neke Maui and the boys took a step to the right so we weren't in line with the girls.

Next we sang Utina after that then the boys did a different Utina at the same time with the girls while we were doing the Utina the boys moved to the front and the girls moved to the back then we finished the song the boys did the haka.  But the bad thing was we did the haka way to fast and same with the second haka. then we sang Wainui E and while we sang Wainui E the boys moved to the back once we were at the back and the girls moved forward.  Then we sang the start of Wainui E and the boys walked off the stage but kept singing then all the girls walked off still singing until the front row of girls were left they were on the stage for the whole song then after Wainui E the girls walked off.    

cricket

Room 3 had to go play cricket after morning tea.  We showed up and Joey was there and we got in to groups of 6 and we were playing a game called steal the balls i'm not sure if thats what its called.  But there was balls in the middle and my group got into a line then when Joey counts down to 5 we run and grab the balls once we touch a ball were not allowed to move we have to throw the ball to the next person in line and if they don't catch it they have to put the ball back in the middle and you have run to the back of the line then the next person runs then when there's no balls left you count up how much you have and that's how you win.   

After that we lined up in are groups and joey said we were going to play a game of cricket he halved the class into 2 groups I was in the fielding team they got 27 runs in total then we switched.  And I was the batting team, finally it was my turn I grabbed hold of the batt and matua bea (the bowler) threw the ball I hit it and ran I got 1 point then he threw the ball again and I ran I got 2 more points.  Once everyone had hit the ball and got out we added up our points and we got 26 points.