Last week on Friday it was Tongan Language week. for assembly The Tongan group perform up on the stage. for the theme i was fakaoloa Aoteroa aki ae nofo ae kainga this means Enriching Aotearoa with our family values . on Friday me and my friend aretafaye perform in the Tongan group the girls were doing a dance and the boys were doing a Tongan Haka. when we were practising we were deciding what actions we want to do for the girls dance when we got all the actions together we started practising really hard. when it was Friday Mr Burt ask the Tongan group to come up and perform. first we did some some speeches in Tongan and then the Tongan girl started. the name for the girls song was fotui he la'a after the girls dance it was the boys Haka. after the boys Haka everyone was clapping then the Tongan group went to sit down.
Hi Eva,
ReplyDeleteIt's really nice to read that you celebrated Tongan Language Week at school. It was also really good to see you and Aretafaye performing and taking pride in your culture. I wish I was there to see it. Thanks for sharing this with us.
Love from Miss Lavakula