Noho Marae 2

I promised ages ago that i would make another noho marae post. As you read in July, me and Ann attende a maori weekend for international students at AUT in march, and we decided we wanted to do it again, so we attended the 2nd semester one as well.
I'd just completely forgot that i promised to do another blog on it, so yeh here we are 2 months after.. (still an improvment from last time, hehe, then again we didn't start the blog till July)
Met loads of new interesting internationals, met a few old friends from the last marae, and we had an amazing time with the amazing maori staff of AUT. If we are allowed, we'll keep coming back for as long as we're here.
We were experts on the stick game, and nobody knew the waiata like we did. And certainly did we shake our booty on the dancefloor all night long haha.
It's an exhausting weekend, but i'll keep coming till they kick me out of the marae hehe.
i love the whole atmosphere of the noho. It's amazing, I miss it heaps now, i can't believe it's already been almost 2 months since it was. Sadly we didn't keep in touch with as many of the new ones this time around:( i guess it's because most of them live at the wellesley student apartments and we don't.
Anyway i'll post a few pics and stuff so you guys can see what we did etc. they are a bit similar to the last time tho, as we did pretty much the same things;)

Flax weaving, we are making a rose!

group 1 with our flowers

Oka, Ann and Me

Waiata

Stick game/E Aue

Waiata again

E rere taku poi! Poi Dancing

Our beautiful Maori Whanau

Shake your booty!

Boat race!

Something very amazing is up there, apparantly, Iku and me.

The Oldies, + newbie. Marcel and Torsten come back, we miss you

The kids get very attached to you over the weekend. They are wonderful

The entire Whanau