Fiafia Day by Ethan

On Thursday 3rd December 2009 we had a culture day when people in our school get into their culture groups to do a performance. There were four groups which were Samoan, Maori, Tongan and I was in the Samoan group.

First we had to have a rehearsal and show our item in our school uniform. After that rehearsal we had to have a quick playtime .

After that we had to go to our places and put on our costumes and then we had to practise when the parents started to enter our school. Then we had to wait for a little while and get ready. We had to wait for ages because we had to wait for the little juniors to finish their playtime.

When they finished play, we had to go out to where we were going to sit. When we went out, there were some groups already there like Maori and Cook Island. The Maori group was on the stage ready to perform.The Tongan group started to make their way over. When they got over here we started our Fiafia Day.

The first group was Maori. They did four items. Next was the Tongan, they did two items and then the Cook Island came on and did three items.

After that it was our turn, the Samaon group . We were doing two items including the dance for the teachers only which makes it three items.

I thought it was a really great day. I really enjoyed the Cook Island and the Samaon because they were both funny.

By Ethan