Fia Fia Night
On Wednesday the 9th of April our school had Fia Fia. For our Fia Fia our school got put in different groups.The group I performed in was the Cook Island group. Before Fia Fia night our groups had to practice our dances. The first thing my groups learnt was our chant. The first line to our chant was “Taku Reo Kapiki” then the second line was “Te Tangi O Te Tokore” after that line the boys had to chant “Te Tane” and next the girls had to chant “Te Vaine”. When we learnt our chants our tutors taught us our dance. Firstly the girls formed three lines and the boys formed two lines then we started practicing our dance. The next week our tutors taught the Cook Island drummers there beat and how to drum it. While they practiced doing the drums the dance group kept on practicing our dance. On the last week we practiced our dance and the drummers played their drums.
On the big night my uncle, my brother, my papa and I went to Fia Fia when I got to school I looked for my friends and walked around with them until we had to got to class. While we walked around Mr Burt rang the bell for all our groups to go to class and get ready for our performance. When I got to my class I grabbed my costume and got dressed after we got dressed our tutor did our hair and then we put a lei in our hair and a lei around our neck and then our teachers pour some oil in our hands and we rubbed it on our skin. When we were ready we sat down and our teachers told us to have fun and dance our best.
After our teachers talked to us we waited for Mr Burt to ring the bell and tell us to come and sit down in our places. While we waited we watched a lot of great performances like Samoan, Maori and Red remix. Once my group was up I felt really nervous and then I head the drummers drum beat and then we started dancing. After the dance I felt really proud of myself because I went up on the stage and I think did the performance great.
