Te Tuhi

Te Tuhi

Class five was getting ready to go on to a trip. We were going to Te Tuhi to learn about pacific stories. We left  school like about 9:30 in the morning . Once we were at Te Tuhi we lined up in front of the building  getting ready to go in. Once we were inside a man name Jeremy introduce his self to us , he told us that he is going to be taking us around and showing us interesting things.

First thing we done was went to this school program area. Once we were inside we had to sit down and wait for some instructions.  Jeremy told us what we are going to do , we had to make a tapa. He introduce to us three different kind of tapas and what they are called. One tapa was from Fiji. In Fiji they call their tapa  Masi .On the tapa it had different designs like diamonds and flowers. Next tapa came from Tonga .In Tonga they call a tapa ngatu. On a Tongan tapa they had an eagle , flower and these little triangle patterns. Last but not least it was a Samoa tapa They call their tapa siapo. On a Samoa tapa it only had a flower , a really big nice one .

After Jeremy had talked about the three different type of tapa he showed us his tapa that he had made. On his tapa he had four squares , in the first square it had a picture of a tree and circles of how much people is in his family , in the second box it had a picture of his home , in the third square it had a picture of  something  he is interested in like rugby  and for the last square he had a picture of something from his culture. When he finish showing us we had to do one ourselves. We took like about  20 or 30 minutes to do our tapa, once we were all finish we had to go out to do the next thing.

We went to this area we Jeremy told us that a person had made a really long wall paper . On that wall paper it  had a picture of people from different cultures  . They didn't have the full episode because it was coming out next year. After we finish looking at the video , we went to look at this painting that had sound effects from the ocean. Then it was time to go . We all said thank you and then Serenity and Iziah had say a thank you speech to Jeremy , then we all went outside to wait for the bus.