Nga Manu Korero

Last week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, the year eights, had the privilege, to go watch and listen to Nga Manu Korero, at Northland College. I enjoyed listening to all the speeches. Some of the speakers, didn't even know what to say, because they had to read everything off the top of their minds. My favourite speaker was Rangimaria. Why? Because she was talking about, her and her papa working in the gardens at their house. I accomplished my writing, and ended up with, 350 words. Here is my piece of writing.

 Nga Manu Korero

This week, our school had the opportunity to go to Nga Manu Korero. I also didn’t get the opportunity to go to the powhiri, because I was a bit late. I enjoyed listening to the speeches. I was overwhelmed with heaps of the speakers and waiata tautoko. . I didn’t know that Nga Manu Korero was that day. I arrived at school late, so I missed the bus to go to Manu Korero. Nga Manu Korero was hosted at Northland College. I was amazed at the hand gestures that all boys and girls were doing in the speeches. When our class arrived at Northland College, I was so shy. Why? Because there were… THOUSANDS OF SCHOOLS!.

When we were listening to the speeches, I was stunned from one girl. Her name was Rangimaria Waiatarere. She was talking about her and her papa, working in the garden. The thing that I enjoyed about her was her hand gestures and movement, and also, she was very fluent in her Te Reo Maori. Everyone had to turn their devices off, because it caused a distraction. You only had a certain amount of time to stay outside and eat. Whaea Mary, Chrystalle and Mele got locked out, because they stayed outside too long. We went to Manu Korero everyday it was on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

I didn’t feel like going too Nga Manu Korero on Friday, but I had already put my hand up and said
“Yes! I'll be here tomorrow”. So I came. Mist began to gather, and it started to get colder and colder.
It felt like my legs were half broken. It was raining, My cousin was in the senior section.
She was talking about ‘Maori has the potential to be realised’ I enjoyed listening to Paula and Rangimaria.
Why? Because they were very awesome. They stayed on their one topic, and always related back to it, if
they went off track. There was one girl, that couldn’t stop laughing when she said her speech.
Her name was Kahutiaterangi. Everytime she made a mistake, she would always laugh.