Kahurangi Dance group

All of the sudden the school bell rang it was time to watch the show that our teachers were talking about this morning. Our class lined up to go to the hall. The hall was filled with year seven and eight and six and fives, cheering the Kahurangi Kapahaka Dance Group to do their best performance.

It began with a lady wearing a traditional Maori piupiu with her pois on the side. She came into the middle of the hall and started talking about the Maori gods and how the world was made. Soon she was joined by three men wearing the same thing but shirtless.

Next another lady joined in, and started to sing about the Maori gods and how the Earth mother Papatuanuku and Ranginui the sky father’s children separated them. One by one they sang together. While they were telling us about the Maori gods I could really imagine how that atmosphere must have looked like. I realized something. When we sing after a mihi it's not loud like their singing. Our voice are strong but not loud enough to be perfect. Their singing was amazingly loud and had a lot of accuracy and beautiful harmonising. It was incredible!

It was nothing like what we expected from two ladies and three men. It was amazing how much sound could come from 5 people with great voices. I kept whispering to my friend next to me (Sapphire) that they should have been in Britain's Got Talent because that was some amazing talent. They would win in any competition that’s for sure.

To finish off their show at the end they started to pick people. So they picked three people. Surprise! The three people were Korobeau, Mr Goodwin (teacher) and Auri. Before the performers started to perform they introduced themselves at the beginning of their show. One of the men named Jorden came up in front, so did Korobeau Mr Goodwin (Teacher) and Auri. They all spread out.

Jorden held a stick which everyone guessed it was a rakau but it was just a stick. While they spread out they started to show off. Auri on the right hand side of the stage was acting as if he was an amazingly strong warrior. Then one of the Kahurangi people Aroha was saying that Korobeau on the left hand side was an amazingly strong warrior and it said the same with Mr Goodwin. He was trying to make him look kind, awesome and cool just like Korobeau and Auri.

Once that was over with I felt like that this was going to turn out funny and it did.  Korobeau, Mr Goodwin and Auri had to copy what Jorden was doing in front and copy him, and when they tried to do that it turned out hilarious. My friend Sapphire and I burst out laughing our faces were turning red hot and it ended.