Polyfest Reflection 2018

I recently performed at Poly fest for the first time in the Niuean group at Tamaki college. It was a really beautiful experience to have performed with the other members and students in the school. At first, I was really scared to perform in front of a lot of people, but I got used to it while performing in front of all of the families at fia fia night. My heart started beating faster than the beat of our dance, it was like I was gonna faint.

As soon as I hit the stage everything zoned out of my head, all I could hear was people cheering for our group and for many people in our group. The experience I had with everyone on Polyfest was a day to remember because that was a day where we all got to represent our culture also to all the people that weren't Niuean but still performed and repped our culture was really cool to see.

The bond we all had before the Niuean group was not good, but after we all started getting closer our bond started to grow bigger and we all started to come together as one and we all became friends. Even if it was my first time performing and representing Tamaki College it was a great opportunity to see what it was going to look like in the future when I join again.

Summer Learning Journey 2017-2018

Food tech 2018

 On our first week of food tech, we made multicoloured cupcakes. It wasn't the best for me, but at least I got to bake it for the first time and it looked good. Next time if I had the chance to make these I would love to bake them better and to make sure they are cooked properly. Preparing all the ingredients, and making it to the right measurements for the cupcake liners was hard a bit for me because it was hard to get them al the same size. But at the end of the day, they were kind of nice.

The second week of food tech, we got to back Peach cobbler. It was a cinnamon cake with peaches on top. It had no flavour to it on the inside, but it was nice and crispy on the outside. For me I would like to make this again but nicer and more presentable to the audience. I would like to do this again for special occasions when it is the right times for this cake.



Last of all, we got to make macaroni salad. This was so delicious to me, because it had a lot of flavour to it, and it was the first time making this in our group, next time I would just make the pasta properly.