Friday 1 June 2018

Samoan Language Week

This week the school has been celebrating Samoan Language Week. We got to learn some words in Samoan, some Samoan food and games. Hamida (Jadarose's mother) has a cousin. We don't really know his name but she calls him Falete (which means friend). Falete teached us how to scrape coconut flesh. So in Samoa, they have this type of tool for scraping coconut flesh out. I forgot what it is called but it looks like a plank with a blade that looks like a pizza cutter on one end. When Falete started scraping the flesh, he used his thumbs to grab two holes on the coconut. He put one end of the coconut on the wood, and another near the cutter. Then he started moving it up and down, side by side a little. When he showed the inside of the coconut, he fascinated all of us. The inside of the coconut was completely out of flesh. Next they got another coconut and they taught Digby, Sumaya and Murat how to shave a coconut.

Falete showing us the coconut he shaved. 

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