Te Oro - Reflection

In the morning room 7 and room 9 were going on a trip to

Te Oro, first we did a roll call on who is here and who is

not then we all packed our lunches in different bags, we

all went inside the bus and the bus driver drove us all to

our destination.

Next we all hopped out of the bus and made a line, the

wahine had to go to the front of the boys, next the people

who worked at Te Oro introduced themselves, then we got

splitted up some went to carve some maori patterns, some

went to paint a rock and the others including me were learning

on how to weave a flax.

After that my group went and sat down on the mat where we

were going to weave some flax, first we all introduced ourselves

then we got splitted up, the girls with one teacher and the boys

with the other, what I have learnt from the experience is that

you have to prey before you start to weave the harakeke.

Then we got straight to weaving but since it was almost matariki

night we made starts, we all got 4 flax then we followed the

instructions that our instructor gave use, some struggled like me

but I kinda got it, then once we were done we cut a bit off from

the side and made it spiky so it looked like a star. Then our

instructor gave us some skinny harakeke to attach to our stars.

Lastly we all said thank you to all of the people who worked with

us and helped us in our groups, then we had our morning tea and

headed back to Glenbrae. It was a fun experiment at Te Oro. I

really liked weaving my own necklaces out of harakeke. It was a

fun experience and I wish I can go back to Te Oro again.