Some rules were to not pick flax at night and to not pick them when it's raining. One of the most important rules was to not cut the Pepi (baby), Matua (father) and the Whaea (mother) because if you do then the whole bush will die. There were some other rules we were not to do with it
After discussing the rules we went off and picked our flax. My friend Jorja and I didn't really get to pick flax but we did get to capture everyone participating in this event. It was amazing seeing everyone co-operating together as a team. It was a short time down at Omaru Creek.
We came back to school with our flax in our hands and our class sat down quietly ready to start weaving. We were trying to weave a putiputi (flower). Some people got through it but some struggled. This was a great experience.
Even though I didn't get to do all of these things but I still had fun seeing people make the putiputi. At the same time is was funny. Anyway this day was AWESOME!!
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ReplyDeleteI am glad in a way that you didn't get to pick the flax because it meant that you were able to take the awesome pictures that went with the recount. The writing is good but the pictures really add to it and make me understand what happened. I have to also say that I think that the explanation that you gave about what not to cut is just as important. We were talking about this with our class and none of our students could explain it in a clear way, so thank you I am going to use your explanation and show it to the students in my classroom.
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