So here is another video from our time in Ireland at the conference called The Awakening. Each squad had to put together a dance that would be performed in front of everyone one afternoon and the winners got a bag of skittles, which probably doesnt sound exciting to you all, but take a 8 month mission trip around the world and then some candy from home begins to be the most amazing prize you could receive. Anyways our squad is blessed with two incredible people: Caleb Dufresne and Jessi Marquez who both took up the task of getting 50 or so adults excited and trained to perform a dance. No small task in any sense. They did incredible though, and unified our squad more than any of us could have a imagined. Needless to say we won (we dominated!).
So the dance had a few requirements:
it had to have at least 30 seconds of a christmas song
it could be no more than 6 or 7 minutes long (something like that)
it had to include everyone on the squad
blah, blah, blah
anyways judge for yourselves..hope you enjoy…sorry the audio is not as clear as it could be…oh yeah so i will explain the last part before you watch.
so the last thing we do is what is called the Ka Mate Haka. It is a Maori traditional war chant. One of our teams while in New Zealand were working with the Maori people and were taught this Haka. They then were kind enough to teach it to us. It is a haka about rebirth and life. the words and translation are below:
Ka mate! Ka mate! Ka ora! Ka ora!
Ka mate! Ka mate! Ka ora! Ka ora!
Tenei te tangata puhuru huru
Nana nei i tiki mai
Whakawhiti te ra
A upa … ne! ka upa … ne!
A upane kaupane whiti te ra!
Hi!
I die! I die! I live! I live!
I die! I die! I live! I live!
This is the hairy man
Who fetched the Sun
And caused it to shine again
One upward step! Another upward step!
An upward step, another … the Sun shines!
I hope you enjoy our dance!!
