Recount On Marae Trip

Here is my Recount about our trip to the Marae at Arahura.

This is a piece of writing that retells and evaluates (what you think) events or experiences.

Title A brief name for the experience or event.	Arahura Marae.
Orientation Tells when and where the event began and who was there.	Last week on Thursday the senior school went to the Arahura Marae. We left our school at 9:30am. We got split into groups and traveled in different cars to the Arahura Marae. When we arrived at the Arahura Marae I was surprised because when I had been to another Marae it was totally different. This marae was different because it was a different colour and it looked way more modern! In the morning I was feeling excited.
Sequence of events Tells the events in the order they happened. You need to have a minimum of 3-4 events. Remember one topic per paragraph.  Your paragraph should have an introductory sentence use a time sequence word/phrase and then detail.	Once we got to the Marae we left our bags in the car and walked around to the entrance and stood behind Miss Ireland while she did the karanga. Before Miss Ireland did the karanga two ladies from the Marae did their karanga, then it was Miss Ireland’s turn. She started walking forward while singing. Once we got close to the Marae Miss Ireland stopped singing  and the other two ladies  welcomed us inside. Before we got inside we had to take off our shoes then go inside. Once everyone was ready and inside the men did a whaikōrero then we sang waiata. After, the powhiri we had morning tea in the dining room. When we walked into the dining room it was all flash and food was lined up along the front of the room. There was lots of food and it was just morning tea. It was great! After, morning tea we went back into the wharenui and we said our mihi. When it was my turn I missed out my mum and dad because I was that nervous. When it was my turn I felt really nervous because it was my first time saying my mihi in front of lots of people and I felt even more nervous when I missed out my mum and dad!   After, the mihi we went to our cars and got our bags and put them in the wharenui. Once we put  our bags in the wharenui we grabbed our lunch boxes and had lunch out on the big deck. Halfway through our lunch one of the ladies from the Marae came with some pounamu to show everyone. There was lots of little and big pieces of pounamu. There was dark green and light green they were amazing! I thought that I needed to find some pieces like that as well! After, lunch we walked down to the river. Once we got there Miss Ireland had a little talk to us about how close you can get to the river! After the talk everyone ran off looking for pounamu! Four or five people found pounamu and they got to keep it. One person found a piece of rare pounamu called lettuce because the color looked like a lettuce color. Once I heard that you could keep the pounamu I got even more closer to looking at the pounamu but I didn’t find any and my friends didn’t either.   After, the river we crossed a little creak and went onto the beach. The sand was hot and soft. On the beach we picked up rubbish but there really wasn’t any rubbish so after we picked up rubbish we had to get into groups of five or four and build a Poutini taniwha. There was three winners but my group wasn’t one of them! But we had a fun time building a Poutini sculpture anyway. Our Poutini looked like a square at first but then we took down the back ones and added a tail and head. I found a good head that had paua shells as eyes. We also put a gate around it and a entrance made out of sticks and a mat made out of stones. Me and my team thought it looked really cool and we were glad that we worked together on it!     Once, we walked back from the beach we did some quiet activities. Me and my friends played uno. After the quiet activities, we had dinner. The people who did dinner gave us a lot of chicken and the bread was delicious and all the rest of the food made me feel like I could get used to it! Most of the girls gave half of their chicken to Katie-Rose because they couldn’t eat all of it. I also tried to steal some of Mackenzie’s bun but she came back. The dinner was great even though it was too big for me!   Once, we ate dinner we sat outside and roasted smores and sang waiata around the fire. I ate the biscuits first and then ate the marshmallow! Everyone started singing and it was great. Everyone sang good and the sound was great as well! Then we went to bed. All my friends and I couldn’t get to sleep and the boys across from us keeped on farting and making funny noises so we all were laughing. After awhile the lights went off and we all went to sleep. The whole senior school was sleeping in the wharenui so it was hard to sleep but we all got there at some point! In the morning I woke up early and all my friends were awake at the same time. When we woke up the birds were chirping. We started talking until we were allowed up. Then we got changed into our school clothes ready to go back to school. After, getting changed we did some activities inside. I did some drawing then some colouring. I coloured a taniwha mask. It was a traditional mask so it wasn’t that colourfull! but it still looked cool. After, some activities we had some breakfast. Breakfast was delicious and yummy. After, breakfast we got our bags ready to go into the car and played some more games outside. Then we did a special farewell where people said thank you and me and Sasha and Mackenzie said thank you for letting us stay in Maori.
Personal Comment/Ending Tells how the experience/event ended and some thoughts you may have about it.	I really enjoyed going on camp and it was really cool to go to a marae for camp and I would definitely go to another marae again.