Fiafia 2016

Intro: This year (2016) Point England School is having another Fiafia production, which is on Thursday this week. Fiafia is about welcoming all students from Pt England to come and perform for different cultural dances or other fun performances. This amazing event has been going on for over 20 years and happens every 2 years ever since 2013 until now.

This year I’ve decided to join the Senior Samoan group, I stand in the back row with all the boys. The person who teaches us the my mum Miss Timmi or Miss Nouata, Miss West and Miss Va’afusuaga. My favourite part is when we move into the shape of the letter V and when do a little sa’sa which is a samoan slap dance.

The Samoan group and I have been practising in the year 7 and 8 block for over 5 weeks now and we’ve almost got it. In the front the girls dance gracefully and at the back the boys follow with a bit more stronger actions. Our song we’re using is called Samoa e Maopoopo Mai by Vaniah Toloa.

For Fiafia I am an MC with three others Marilyn, Jordan and Elizabeth, we have been practising for only two days, luckily we don’t have to memorise the script. Tomorrow we have to be there at six o'clock or earlier if we want to buy some delicious sweets, drinks or supa’s which is yummy meats with taro and sometimes potato salad.

Yesterday we had a rehearsal and went through all the acts, I had been practising as an MC and last night Whaia Saffron helped me to say the Maori parts. My favourite group would have to be Miss Clark's group called Junior Hip Hop or Mrs Samuels group. Miss Clark because of the song selection and Mrs Samuels because of the dance moves.

I can’t wait to perform, I also can’t wait to eat the food. There are only about 12 stalls this year and there are 3 raffles for seafood, a barbeque pack and a breakfast pack. Hopefully it doesn’t rain tonight because if it does everyone is going to get wet and then no one will be happy. I’m not really nervous I’m just extra excited.

Senior Samoan Rehearsal

Going to Polyfest

On Thursday the 19th of March all the 7&8 students and teachers from Point England School Went to Polyfest including my mum and some other parent helper.

At 10:00 am the year 7&8 students from Pt England had just arrived at polyfest, when we had gone through security they checked our bags just to see if we had any dangerous weapons. When we were inside, all the school had already been sitting in their lines waiting for us to arrive.

Not soon later John Key came with lots of people surrounding him. There were cameras flashing people clapping and some people were screaming. He talked to all the school saying welcome and have a great time and then he went into the big ASB Bouncy Castle House. After that it was time to go to our stations.

My class, room 2 went to our first station and it was the Fire Station we learnt about how to be safe around a burning pot, it was so fun. There was even a lady handing out free T-shirt and water bottles for the people who answered the fireman's questions. One thing I learnt, was that never pour water into a pot on fire or else fire will burst out.

Another one of our stations was called Flava, there we met some really fun people they let us play games, listen to music and we even got to take some amazing photos. We also had the chance to go into the draw to win a brand new blue and black coloured bike, the model was on top of there car.

Finally it was time to eat and me, my cousins and friends got to eat Keke Pua'a that my auntie bought for us her name is Priscilla, I thought they were delicious and so was the chicken and potato salad. After we had finished eating we were aloud to go with our parent helpers and have a look at the stalls and performing groups.

My group had decided to go and see the Maori groups performance. Along the way I saw lots of really cool stalls and foods and lots of awesome costumes and I also heard some really funky music coming from the people who came with flava, I had so much fun.

After we had finished watching the maori groups performance it was time to leave, we all lined up and headed for our buses but instead of getting ready to leave we had to wait and wait in the hot sun for our buses then they had finally arrived and it was time to leave, I can’t wait to go again on Saturday, that’s when one of my cousins perform.