Wednesday - Te Papa/ Nga Taonga

Te Papa/ Nga Taonga

On Wednesday I went on a school trip to Te Papa. When we got there we had to sit down and have morning tea. When we got inside we all got separated into groups. We had to walk all the way up to the top floor (not the roof).

On the way up me and Aidan were going to the side and looking down, shouting to Warda and Lennox saying: GOOEY! (only Lennox saw us). After that we saw the history of some Māori people like this lady who kills people and eats them if she doesn’t like them. She is a scary and powerful lady. If she likes you that is very good because you would want her by your side.

After that we went to watch this story where this man is running away from these people who are cannibals. One person is able to stand still and look around the place without actually moving and looking around (it’s sort of like he’s psychic or something). Apparently women are able to block that (it’s like magic). We finished watching it and started walking down to the bottom.

Everybody else wasn’t there so we secretly went to the earthquake house….Shhhh…. We went down and saw all the people now. We went outside and Warda kept trying to know what me and Aidan went to (earthquake house) but she couldn’t crack us. We ate our lunch then went on the bus.

We went on the bus and headed to Nga Taonga. We got there and entered this like cinemea or something. We watched black and white videos (old videos). It was boring that I almost fell asleep while watching it.

Aidan and Riki-lee woke me up after a while because they were telling me Ms Smith was taking pictures of the people who were sleeping. I stayed up a little then went back to sleep...sort of….I woke up and saw the part when they were on the coloured videos. We learnt about the history of wellington back before it looked like what it is right now.

We had a little time left so we got to watch funny old ads. We watched the old KFC ad and it was weird. We also watched this other one where this woman is talking to a puppet and they love each other...After we watched those old videos we went back on the bus going back to school.

We got back to class and did the same end of day pack up.