Room 10 and their Japanese Student friends.

Nicole and her billet Mai Watanabe

Josh and his billet Jun Hasunuma

Nick and his billet Kenta Tsuchiya. Grant is his host in Room 10

Being welcomed onto the school. The Karanga is the welcome call to invite the

new people into the Marae(School)

The speakers from each group

Yamano Ibuki – A song about mountains and nature.

Te Aroha – A song about love

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Greeting the students at the end of the Powhiri with the Hongi (Touching noses / foreheads)

The words for the maori song Te Aroha

Te Aroha

Te Whakapono

Me te rangimarie

Tatou tatou e

This means:

Love

Faith

And peace

Will make us as one (people)

• This was produced by Room 10 at Morrinsville Intermediate School, New Zealand.

• Our Blog address is:

www.rm10mis.blogspot.com• Congratulations to Calvin for his great

photography and filming.• We know our new friends from Japan will

have a great time here.