Empathy Recap Term 2

Empathy is something that people all over the world use everyday. It is something that helps people who are sad, sick or just feeling down. Not like nearly everything else in this world at the moment, Empathy isn’t something online, it isn’t something that you buy, it is an emotion that people give.

An example of empathy would be if someone was by themselves and no one was with them, you can go up and ask them to play with you. That is empathy because you are thinking about if it was you, then you would want someone to come and be your friend. In other words, it is putting yourself in other people’s shoes.

Kapa Haka Recording

This morning we had the privilege of recording our Maori Kapa Haka songs with a professional recording studio called, Jam Bus who are a mobile recording station. I was just sitting in class when Ms Squires said, “All Kapa Haka students go to the music room now.” I didn’t know what was happening but I went anyway.

When we got there, Mr G was outside the room and he told us that they were going to record the guitars first then record us after so we followed Ms Tito to the staff room where she told us about our next performance.

The guitars didn’t take that long and before we knew it, we were recording our awesome Maori songs. Before we recorded the songs, we practised them one by one and the sound guys would tell us what to change to make the sound better. It didn’t take that long to record all of them which was good. I enjoyed recording the songs and maybe we do it again some time.