We have the inter house Haka Extravaganza tomorrow, in celebration of the 40th Maori week. Matua Pou wrote us a school haka that we've nearly learnt. It means we haven't had school singing for two weeks, but I don't really mind that.
It's the college expo today. It's when all the teachers of the different optional subjects from TA College come and have a stall thing where they show you what you do in that subject. It's really interesting. Last year I decided I was going to do graphics, outdoor ed, special effects, and metalwork, but then I found out I wasn't going to TA College. The other subjects that I can remember are agriculture, where you got to ride quad bikes or motorbikes or something in year ten, sewing and cooking which I think was joint, woodwork, drama, music, economics, and another four or five that I can't remember. It's been exactly a year since then, give or take a few days.
For Tech Arts we are in Music now. For our first lesson we had a look at some Spanish/Latin dancing and music. For the second we did some Irish jig music, which was the lesson I was looking forward to most because I'm Irish and I love the Irish music, but I missed that one because I shut my hand in the door and had to see the doctor. This last lesson we did some Maori stick games to a waiata called E Papa. I did those in primary school, and I loved doing them, and the song really is beautiful. The stick games were kind of hard though, having to throw and catch at the same time.
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