FUIMAONO FAMILY

May was a busy busy busy month! Here's some of the May Madness from the 1st half o f May :) May 4th - A f ter a four hour rehearsal at PCC for We Are Samoa stuff we headed o ver to the Fobsquad BBQ at Kakelas! Alicia was here on vacation for a week and for the first time since forever we all met together. Our family could only be there for the ending but it was soooo nice to see everyone and have all the kids socialize! Look how we've all grown! Love these people! After the BBQ we had to rush home, clean up, get ready, and head down to Castle HS for their Ho'ike . The Castle high school kids performed a portion of the We Are Samoa performance for the Samoan section. They did a great job with everything! We were exhausted afterwards and left right after taualuga finished. It was one loonnnggg day. M ay 10th- Tui got his mission ca ll! ...annnd he was called to serve in ARIZONA!!! I couldn't he ar too well so I don't know what area he'll ...

WE ARE SAMOA 2013 This year Aljay and I had the privilege of teaching Castle High and King Intermediate combined. We are still fairly new to the 'We Are Samoa Festival' but we gave it our best efforts and enjoyed every step of the journey...and Yes it was a  ' journey ' ---we started practices in March and finally had our performance in May :) and during those two and a half months of practices, rehearsals, Fiafia night, last minute costume making, struggles with finding boys to dance, dealing with indecisive -prone-to-drama pre-teens and t een agers , scheduling around Ho'ike occupied high schoolers, and creating props, I can honestly say that the journey was worth taking. At the beginning of the performance. 37 students from King and Castle participated in the performance, with only a third of them being Samoan- the rest being Hawaiian, Micronesian, Puerto Rican, Tongan, Japanese, Tahitian, Filipino, and anything else you can name. ...