He Korowai Hapori - Ruapotaka Marae

Ruapotaka Marae
He Korowai Hapori
Whaea Noelene
Housing in the Tamaki Community

When we entered the Ruapotaka Marae there was a speaker. Her name was Whaea Noelene. And there was one other school. That school name was Glen Taylor, they brought the year fives and sixes to visit like what we were doing. Anyways Whaea Noelene did and awesome Maori introduction to welcome us and to let us know who she is. Her fluency of speaking Maori was incredible and really unique. The tone of her voice, as she was speaking made me fall asleep. She talked about the Tamaki Community, of houses being built around that area. She also talked out some special Maori words telling us that we are the treasure for the future. She showed us a Maori designed Korowai. They said that they made the Korowai by hand and that got me amazed. Amazed of the amount of hard work they had to do. Each design of the Korowai they created, had a different meaning behind it. I cant remember all of it, but i still know what it could look like. It had colours of course and layers of house's on coloured lines on top of brown flax. It was a good piece of art and it was something different as in cool. I liked how it looked because i havent seen one before but that was my first time. It was a good trip down at the Ruapotaka Marae cause im sure we all learned something special and new.