Pacifika 2014

Here is a movie I created from my experience of Pacifika 2014. Pacifika is a celebration of pacific cultures and is celebrated every year. This event has been going for 22 years, WOW! It was held at Western Springs park. There were 100 stalls, 1,000 performers and 11 stages. My favourite stage was Niue because they were giving away lots of prizes such as crayfish, t-shirts, hats and more.  Hope you enjoy my movie!

Stevenson Pacifika 2014 from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

Holiday Highlights Week 2

On the second week of the school holidays I went to see some more Christmas lights with my cousin, mum and nana at motat and Franklin Road on Friday. There were all these houses that were covered in bright colourful lights. It was just beautiful driving through the street.

   

On Christmas day we had an amazing brunch with my uncle Jon, my mum, nana and grandpa. We had smoked salmon, roast lamb, pork, glazed ham, salad, prawns, gravy, raw fish and other delicious foods. this was actually our second celebration for christmas as we had an earlier one at my uncle Jon’s house a few weeks ago.    

The day after Christmas I went to Niue and I was excited because, I couldn’t wait to see my cousins! When we arrived in the boiling hot Island of Niue, it was dusk. My adventure had just begun. During my visit in Niue I slept over at my aunt's in Hakupu, swam at Avatele Beach (Avatele pronounced as Avasele) and also had a dip at the pool at Matavai Resort. We also celebrated a few birthdays including my cousin Elijah’s second birthday.

 
 
 

Niue Language Week At Pt.England School

If you attend a Niue Language Week event, you can expect to experience cultural and language activities, Niuean cuisine, music, traditional stories and more. Click here for more information.

Fiafia Niue 2013

One dark black evening my whole school

had a fiafia night. We do fiafia every 2 years. What do we do at our fiafia night?  Well the students perform a routine in front of the school, friends and family.

There are a variety of groups to join such as Niuean, Tongan, Samoan, Cook Islands, Asian Pacific, Jump Jam, Hip Hop and many more. Only stink thing you can only perform in one group.

The group that I chose was the Niuean group because that’s the group I’ve been in every fiafia night since I started at Pt. England School. Usually we have our fiafia inside our school hall but this year they took this cultural event outside.

Before starting, at 6 o’clock we had to go to the holding rooms and get changed into our costumes. My group wore sisi’s and lava lavas, we also had our hair coloured.

After getting changed we went to our sitting area. I was shocked to see that thousands of people showed up.

We watched other groups and waited for our turn. This was very boring an exciting at the same time for me. I could not wait until it was our time to shine.

When we started I was pretending to blow the conch shell and the warriors were sneaking out from the crowd. When I finished blowing the conch shell the intermediate boys shouted “The people are coming the people are coming!,” in Niuean. Then the girls replied “Tell them to come tell them to come!”. They repeated that twice. After that our tutor played the drums while the intermediate boys came onto the stage. When the drumming stopped my cousin Kingston did a Niuean speech. After that we did a Niuean dance called the Hopo. Then we sang and did actions to a song which was called Ka Fisi Niue. After that we did a Niuean haka which was named the Takalo. When our fiafia performance finished I felt incredibly awesome.

Performing in the fiafia night was spectacular. Thanks to the tutors Miss Lavakula and Mrs Lagitupu.

Niuean Group Performance Fiafia 2013

Niue Fiafia 2013 from Team 4 Pes on Vimeo.

This is the group that I performed in at Pt. England School Fiafia night 2013. I am blowing the conshell and my cousin Kingston is doing a Niuean speech. Over three thousand people came to watch our show. Hope you enjoy.

Niue My Homeland

Fakalofa Lahi Atu, last week I travelled to Niue Island with my grandparents, mother, aunty, uncle and cousins.  Here is three simple short stories that I wrote about my homeland.

Niue Island

Niue Island is a huge raised coral atoll, which means that Niue is high above sea level.

It is in the centre of a triangle of four Polynesian islands made up of Tonga, Cook Islands and Samoa. It takes three hours to travel from NZ (New Zealand) to Niue by plane.

It is made up of fourteen colourful villages. I come from the capital of Niue which is Alofi.  I also come from Hakupu.

There are less than 1,500 people living in Niue. Most people are bilingual, speaking both Niuean and English. People who travel there are called tourists but those who live in Niue are called locals. The locals are very kind, friendly and helpful.

Sunday is a respected day in Niue. Most locals attend church in the morning and again in the afternoon. Throughout the country Sunday is the best day for rest and worship. Tourists however play golf, go sightseeing or swimming but not boating and fishing as it is not allowed.

Niue Island is a great holiday destination to go for a fabulous and safe vacation.

Matapa Chasm

Have you ever been to Matapa chasm before?  Well it is an incredible place that you can go to do a range of water activities such as snorkelling, diving, swimming and skimming rocks.

My favourite thing to do there is snorkelling.  Snorkelling at Matapa Chasm is absolutely outstanding as the water is clear and unpolluted.  You can see a variety of sea creatures like coloured, stripy, bright, neon, large, small, tiny fish, sea snakes and even sea urchins (kina).

Matapa Chasm was once used as a bathing place for Niue’s Traditional kings.  It is an awesome place to go and cool off while in Niue.

UGA

Uga is an island land crab which is popular in Niue.  At first they are blue then when you boil them they turn red.  It is the best seafood you could ever eat.

Uga is hard to find if you don’t know what you are doing.  Luckily the locals are smart and experienced at catching uga.

To catch an uga you have to go into the forest at daytime and lay your bait.  The bait is usually dry brown coconuts tied onto a rock.  

After a couple of days you go back at night to see if you have caught any.

Uga hunting is difficult at first but after lots of practice, you will get use to it.  My grandpa is good at hunting uga but he said that my cousins in Hakupu are the best.