The Madd Messenger

Yesterday, Petia and Leah came to our school to talk to us about being proud of our Culture, and being proud of who we are. Petia told us a little story about his father. He said that in the 60’s his father came to New Zealand to live to get money and send it back home to his family. He didn’t know how to speak English, and when the workers asked him what his name was, he said that it was Petia. (The only english word he knew was Peter.)

After that, he put us into groups. The groups were, Samoan, African, Tongan, Niuean and Cook Island. I went to the Niuean group. The people in my group were, Erina, Dallas,Bono, Joseph, Justin and Chris.

Then, we got given a piece of paper. On that paper it had three questions. The first one was "Where is your country or island found?" The next was "What are the traditional Values?" The third question was "Does your culture have any noises or gestures?"

When we had filled out the piece of paper, we chose someone to present something from our culture. Bono, Joseph and Justin did a niuean Haka as our presentation.

Yesterday was great. I was proud to represent my country, and I was very happy.