My maraie trip story on one thursday morning kahikatea team went to pu rerikreki just
road from actionatomotive . When we arrived at the marai we watted for
Pipi/Hami /and the owner to unlock the marai. while we watted we played a game called starlight midnight. Then there were two Groups one Group had been there so they did,nt
need to be welcomed. On to the marae but the other group hadn't been there before .
finally they went into the marai . But the rest of them had to wait to be welcomed on to the marai. Then whaea kathie welcomed us on to the marai then we had to sing pirongia tau tat
maunga first the people that had been sung the song first. Then the people arrived at the marai
then it was our turn to sing the song then. We all said hello to all of them then we got out our
lunch boxes and put them on the bench for lunch. Then we started doing the weaving /calving the singing or else helping with the food or drinks. And then it was morning tea time we had about 10 to 15 minutes of play time. But we had a fun time at morning tea then we had to swap .then i went to the singing group for the day 1 but i got good at it and got the hang of it so well then it was lunch time it was a good lunch time we had at least twenty to half an hour play Time mr gemel played soccer with us it was really fun in the afternoon then it was potluck dinner which is a shared Dinner we stayed up until 6 pm that is is when Pipi/ and Hamie left home to the other side of Hamilton once they left we all had to have to do our teeth then some people helped with tacking the tables putting them outside so the adults can get to sleep they were Lucky because they got cummfy ground matrices but I would call it concret then the boys got wood no air conditioner . Inside but the girls got aircondition I said that is unfair then in the morning. I had wetbix 3 bits it was yum!!!!!