Bay of island college is alright. The food is good its fun to have friends around and you can learn so much about anything you want there is so many activities you can do like sports.

The classes can get confusing on the first day but within a week you’ll get use to it.

my favourite class i take is dance and least favourite is social studies and math. i’m not very smart and maths nor social studies.

Half of the students and teachers are my relations somehow. today seemed a bit slow to be honest but this term felt like lightening speed.

The main things we used were leaves, a mortar and pestle, and iso-propyl-alcohol, The other things we used was a conical flask, test tuber, filter paper, and a funnel. We went outside to grab a few leaves but they had to be green. The greener the better. Then we got our mortar and pestle and put the leaves inside the mortar and used the pestle to crush up the leaves. We only crushed up the leaves because they carry pigment and we needed the pigment out of the leaves, Then we put a little bit of iso-propyl-alcohol and mixed it for 10 minutes then we folded the filtered paper and put it inside the funnel put the funnel into the conical flask and pour our mixture into the filtered paper and wait for it to filter.

When it was finished we took some photos and then put them into this fume chamber and made the room dark. So when we closed the curtains and then we used a UV light and shined it at the mixture in the test tube and watched it turn different colours. It went from green to red.  It glows because of the pigment in the leaves mixed with the iso-propyl-alcohol.

Culture means the race of a human being. It tells us where you come from, who you are and things you have grown up around. In your culture you may have certain foods that you eat, certain sports, instruments, and traditions that you attend that represent your culture. 

A lot of cultures have accents or different languages other than the old original English.

 For example, in Maori culture we love kai moana we love kina, oysters, pipis, cockles, crayfish, mussels, fish and plenty more. We love kai moana because we have grown up around the ocean and it’s easy to get. It’s delicious and savory. We celebrate Matariki and we love kapa haka.

Kapa haka is very important to Maori culture because it’s a traditional performance that we do to give our respect and let our voices be heard. We do it for our loved ones and for our whanau that have passed to heaven.   

This is a photo of Orehu Kapahaka roopu. This is my favourite kapahaka group because they are really good with the waiata and staying on note they have big nice actions, beautiful smiles and they have fierce pukana and haka.

We celebrate matariki because it’s a time for us to spend time with our loved ones and to celebrate the start of a new year. This is a short example of the story about matariki. In Māori culture, some say that when the sky father (Ranginui) and the Earth mother (Papatūānuku) were separated by their children, the god of the wind (Tāwhirimātea) was so upset that he ripped out his own eyes and threw them into the sky this was the creation of the 9 matariki stars. Some people think there’s only seven matariki stars but there are nine matariki stars but 2 of our beautiful stars were lost and we don’t see them with the rest of the matariki.

This is a photo of our beautiful matariki.

This is an example of what represents Maori culture. We have a lot more other things to represent the Moari culture but this is just some stuff to get an image of the Moari culture. There are still many more cultures to be explained.  

Explain the relationship between tuakiri and ahurea ‘’there is an inextricable link between an individuals name and their personal,social and ahurea’’  inextricable means it’s impossible to pull apart. Identity is when people identify you with something. You could be Maori and still enjoy other different cultural things such as food and clothing from a different culture because it’s normal to try different food and clothing and because Maori is in your blood. My culture runs through my blood because of my ancestors.