IALT: reflect about what we did so far for Ako Production.
Today's blog is about.....
✃Ako Production!
So for the past few weeks we have been working on our Ako Production. For our Ako Production we have to perform in our Ako Evening which all families comes. So each of our Culture group talks about a natural that happens or hit the Island. We have our own different types of culture group in the pacific islands which are Fijian, Samoan,Niue,Cook Island,Tonga & New Zealand. My Culture group is Fijian and I found it challenging because we have to perform to our audience first.
Our Story is about - The Turtles on Namuana-
My part in my group is the 2, Narrator and The chief(Jone), As a chief I have to dress up as a boy and I found it challenging to be the chief because I need to learn to speak as a man or a boy, for me that is a challenge. I also had another challenge which is learning the Fijian dance, it's kind of easy because the girls sat down and the boys kneel down. Our Fijian song for the dance is Meda butu and if you wanna listen (CLICK HERE).
As a group member I have to come to school everyday so I won't miss out anything and the happenings that's going on at school. So in my group I have - Leilani,Amon,Coralee, Hevani,Fe'ao and me.
In our groups we have to also think about what our props and our culture dance but it has to reflect in our own culture groups. So for our props what we need is a turtle back,canoe, water which is the ocean/sea and the shark tale for the god of the sea which is Dakuwaqa. It is very hard to make our own canoe and to think of one but Luckily Mrs. Komor had an Idea and what she did was.... She use a big piece of paper then she painted it brown and she made the shape like a canoe, then she needed help from us and I was there. Mrs. Komor made 7 canoe and Mrs. needed some helper which is about 5 people.
For our Turtle back that was for Coralee and Hevani's part, so I didn't have to help them but I still did only the colouring part. Hevani had another helper which is Amon and for Coralee's turtle back she had another helper which is me and Star. The Turtle back turned out pretty good.
For the shark tale it was easy and Star did it herself but Leilani did the drawing. It also turned out pretty good. For our costumes we just needed black T-shirts, lava lava, blue dress and the flower necklace & white T-shirt. Our class already had some extra Lava Lava and a blue dress also some flower necklaces. When we finish with our props we had to learn our part and the dance. We had to present our in culture roleplay in room 10 and we had to find our own space to perform which is challenging because we had to find out. Anyways Mrs. Komor and Mrs. Aireen already find our spaces for our culture role plays.
Now we had to put things to room 9 so our props and costumes could fit. We all helped each other to put things in room 9 and room 9 is smaller than room 10 but Mrs. Komor organised for us so all of room 10's things went to room 9 and it fit. When things was done we finally get to rest and...
Now we had to get ready for our Ako Evening which is to be continued(next blog)......
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When Families were coming I was scared and my heart was beating so fast. Anyways Edith had to step up for Coralee, Constance had to step up for Star, Alo had to also step up for Amon because Coralee,Star and Amon was away on that day. Our roleplay turned out pretty good because even Constance didn't know all the line of Star's part she made her own line and save our group, also Edith saved our group. 
So for all of the culture groups I have watched, I loved all of them but when it got to the Tongan group, New Zealand group and Cook Island group it got kinda boring and they needed to speak loudly and cleary but other than that it was enjoyable. Mrs. Aireen and Mrs. Komor was very proud of us and for the hard work we did so far. All of the parents that attended they loved our performance and I'm happy that it turned out pretty well.
