Japanese visit

On the 29th July our school had a visit from some Japanese students.
They came when we were having lunch so we talked to them and they took pictures of us.
When lunch was finished we all gathered around the seats and watched the Japanese students do a traditional dance and sang their school song.Then we sang Kia Waiata to them.
After they were finished their performance groups of five of them came into each of the classrooms.
In our classroom the Japanese students talked to us about a tradition where people sprinkle beans on their doorsteps and around their houses to drive away evil.
Even though it wasn't the date that the ceremony was happening,one of the Japanese students put a dragon mask on and we threw foam beans instead of real ones that would be roasted.
Then one of the visitors took out another mask, Josh and Brett tried it on and we laughed at them.
We then sang Peace Like A River to them in Maori because we were learning it for Maori Language Week.
They then took out some special origami paper with flower patterns on them, they came in shades of green, pink and reddy orange. They didn't have enough pieces of paper so we got out some coloured paper of our own.
Luckily I got some of the Japanese paper in green.
We all made origami birds.
It was really hard but fun to make the birds.
We all had a photo with the Japanese students and then we said goodbye to them and they left.
It was a really fun day making origami and watching the Japanese students.