Tuesday 8th of November 2022 we went to Roma Marae for a school trip with rooms 3,4,5 and kapa haka. We got on the bus and went to Roma Marae. When we got there they called us in and our kaikaranga responded, we were at the back because we let the ladies in front because ladies are at the front and gentlemen are at the back because it was ranning and we were
in a little tunnel
When we walked into the marae we got to sit on chairs or the floor. Matua daren did ahipara a mihi and matteo did one
Aswell. Matteo’s dad backed him up with another mihi, as the kaumatua. Then an elderly nice lady there who basically knew all of our grandparents, she asked us to say our pepehas but nobody wanted to say their pepeha but mana and some parents did their pepeha. So she just said their parents and their nanas and papa and your surname.
We walked over to the other side of the marae to eat some kai that was prepared for us visitors. Slade lead the karakia and we ate some oranges cupcakes cake and more after that we went back to the marae and the lady told us some stories about NZ it was cool. She also told us about the wakas. After that we walked back to school and stopped at the carvings there were made for our leader poroa and tinana our school waka leader then we walked back to the school—-the end.