Grace Joel Performances

 Today students from Glenbrae School went to a elderly's rest home for old people. The students were performers. We had 4 different items from 4 different Pacific Islands. It was Samoan, Tongan, Maori and Cook Islands.

We were ready with our brilliant teachers who I will thank for helping us prepare our item and helping us with our costumes. We were really nervous and excited at the same time. When we went into the hall there were a lot of old women and men who were really hype to see our amazing performances.

First was the Maori group, the haka was done by the room 7 boys who were really fierce and loud in their haka which is pretty sick right? Well after the haka was the Maori singing group. We sang "te aroha" and "Purea nei." I was happy that I got to lead the songs. I was also happy of my friend Angelica who was also leading the songs and she did pretty well. Next was the Tongan group. The tongan group was really confident and happy on how they were doing their performances.

One of the Tongan performers were being really shy and so we had to  tell that performer to keep up and to be confident. They also had the Tongan boys to dance with another song and they were really good, doing the actions right and they even were smiling real big.

After that it was my favourite culture group which is the Samoan group. The Samoan group was doing something really different. We were doing "slap dancing" which is called a "sasa." We had our dance coach, Miss Tofa to drum for us. We were ready to dance and we were going really hard, the moves were sharp and even I was in the Samoan group to represent my culture.

Later on we had the Cook Island group. We had our friendly friend Maara to do a freestyle dance for us. She was really good in dancing. Her dance had a really deep message. It was really relaxing for everyone who is watching. This was really inspiring for the performers. Then we had Aaliyahna dance with her for a fast dance. They were shaking so hard that they started sweating. It was really fun of them performing in front of us.

Finally we had performers to talk about the dance and what it is all about. We even had people dancing with us which was really fun. It was really entertaining for the elderly's who were having fun. Later they gave us some chocolates for our performances. We had Cherise say thank you for them for helping do breakfast and for giving the love to us. It was really fun performing and we really enjoyed it.