Pictures of Pago Pago American Samoa

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These are the pictures for the Rapa Nui show. Further pictures for the other nations will be available soon. If pictures are deleted from this page, they will find their way to the gallery pages. Made in Samoa, USA, this is a real gift with information about the festival and the participant states.

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Witnesses worldwide " Pago Pago, American Samoa

Unbelievable lecture week!" That' s a great one. The last weekly teaching assignment was a one weeks course at a youth camps named Campo Alofa (Love), the DDPS and the keynote-speakers. On Monday mornings, we awoke and set off for our journey to Alofa. Everything began with an hours devotion, a devotion conversation and the everyday commemorative vers.

It was a great boon to be in front of the children who do what I like and watch them really get into the music. Samoans enjoy chanting and chanting their heart out with every number. This was a nice walk and not quite simple, but every one of us made it and we all had a great part of the work.

This was a prosperous first year of Alofa and we look forward to seeing it growing and what it will be in the years to come. The year was only a daily 10-4 per days but it is certain that it will be a weeks in which camper will come to spend the fortnight!

It was a great experience and we had a great family. Every single Sabbath we learned a different part of God's work. There were about 50 children every evening. First we started with a few tunes and had a commemorative verses for the whole weeks, which the children had memorised without any problems until the end of the weeks.

Every group went to different stations: crafts, activities and history times. All of the children had applied colour to their palms and they placed their palms so that the thumbs and indexes on each of them merged into a single heard. Then, we penned God Love Me in English and Samoan from the other five and took a photo of them so we could put their image in the center of our hearts.

They were returned to us at the end of the fortnight after we had enough free space to put them together for them. Two was God's passion is giving. The third was God's unshakable passion. and that I was the devil.

So I just went in and out of her hands and asked her if this was a good example of God's loving, if I could go through her as if it were nothing. God's unshakable passion. It was God's passion forever and ever. And they made armbands with Kristen and they toyed with me until we were in a group that depicted God's loving that went around forever and ever.

Matter of fact, day 5 was God's affection. It was a magnet for their buddies and we were playing a play to show how quickly God's passion can increase if you just tell it to a few of them and they tell it to their mates. By the end of our times, we gave each of them a luminous mark to wear.

Altogether the whole work went very well this year. Both Kristen and I are so happy to have had such a good period here and look forward to returning to the States and presenting what we have done to all those who have helped us. We' re leaving American Samoa on Monday.

What a great weekend! We have a better and better day....and we are more and more busy! There will be a week-long diary from last Monday to Monday. On Monday mornings we went to the shop to find some stuff for the pleletasis. That is the Samoan tradition I'm so looking forward to!

In fact, it worked that we have enough stuff for me to have two puletases, Dean has two jackets, and Danna has given me more stuff that I think I'll be turned into one outfit. I' m really curious how it will look when we come to get it this sunday.

It seems that the woman who makes the placental disease is a marvel! Took Dean and I to see three school homes of beef. Eventually I turned around to find Dean. And then I saw the little guy that was holding me up to Dean. During the remainder of the weeks was really quite relaxed and quiet until the end of the day.

While it was a lot of fun to look at, and the children had a good time with it, it didn't remain very organised as the match went on. We then ended the action with Ray going blindfold while Dean was the only one who gave him orders. It' been a really great afternoons and the children seem to really like it.

with the saturday tweens. And Sunday mornings were the best grade I ever had! We have this weeks teaching of the 10 plagues of Egypt. I' m going to have it painted in in the classes, but the whole thing took all the while. You' re acquainted with them, but it was interesting for Manda..... the Samoan interpreter for my group.

It worked with the children to help them comprehend what they were. I am so used to educating children in Texas who must have had a hailstorm, but these children have never seen a hailstorm on this isle. We have lunched with the directors of the young people's camps (Camp Alofa.... Cam Love) which will take place next weekend.

Camps are for the 7 to 12 classes and take place daily from 10:00 to 6:00, with DDPS from 6:30 to 8:00. We are fully responsible for VBS and we are group leader/consultant for the Alofa. Allow me just to say that we will be very involved in scheduling and preparation this coming weeks and next with full working hours.

That'?s the kind of thing I like to do! On this Thursday evening we will welcome the guests at the airfield who will be our guests for Camp Alofa and lectures. I can' t look forward to meeting them, and I expect they can get used to the moisture and timing faster than I am.

You start with a cook-out on Saturday to welcome them to Samoa, and then preach on Sunday and the bustling workweek of next weeks. It'?s a pity how quickly this period has already passed. We' ve got this weeks schedule, next weeks of VBS, a few day in West Samoa next weeks, and then we're going to Hawaii for a few DAY.

I' m gonna get even close to these marvelous kids and then I' m gonna go. Marvelous. I am not looking forward to abandoning these marvellous humans and the nice landscape! I' ve already been so happy, and I know that God will show me more here for the remainder of our years!

I' ve had a great part of my life so far.... and I'm prepared for the bustle. Let us go on with our planning! We went to the shore during the whole working day to plan something. It was a rather relaxed one! We had a play this weekend where the children had to put a panic tube on their heads and the panic tube a ball at the other end, then they had to sway it back and forth and beat down a line of pots we had made.

There was Bible study this mornin' where we were talkin' about the scourges of Egypt. We' re so happy with the children we work with. There will be a lot of activity this weekend to plan the week-long DDPS starting next weekend. It was a blessing and a surprise for you!

It' been a very strenuous working holiday, but it must have been a great one! The most important things I really did recall last weeks (not from the weekend) were having luncheon with Bill (one of the Tafuna Church's juvenile helpers) and snorkelling with Dean again. We' dined with Bill to get to know each other and just have a little talk.

He' will be one of the organizers of the daily juvenile camps, which will take place in the 13 June weekly. Me and Dean have been going to a convenience store named KS Mart several people. But Dean said full BINGO events often take place here. A website with an account of some of Samoan food, and the following image was on the page.

"This is a Samoan delicacies made from the offal of a marine snail. Hint: I did NOT take this image. Afterwards Dean and I went back to "Fatu ma Futi", the flowerpot for snorkeling. It was low water this eve, so I could go further out where the corals and pisces were.

Dean and I had a match planned for her. We' ve taken carpets from the Willis' home on which the children can seat and catapult themselves across the finishing line with a team. It' been a hit, and Facebook will really have some great pictures once they're up.

Looks like every one of the children are upset for the next sunday. On Saturday is our season to teach the tweens. We have treated this weeks breastplate of righteousness and the "slippers" or shoes of peace. They' re known in Samoa as flip-flops, so we call them slipoffs.

and to look for her and wonder if she's there. It' all right. This is death who' s gonna help the children make their Slippers of Peace. This is where I help children make their chest plates of righteousness. On Sunday mornings, we were teaching our Bible studies: Me and the younger children.

It' really astonishing how much the Samoans really enjoy it! Last time I was teaching my classmate a tune and I wanted to do it again a couple of consecutive wks to help them study the new one. After the first 3 words ("Who has the....") the children sang.

They not only recalled the carol, but also the signing I had been teaching them last weekend. It' so much pleasure to be singing with these children. While I was reading the tale in English, my beautiful assistant Aremenda was translating into Samoan for the children. I' ll do my best to post the file on Facebook sometime this weekend, but it will take me a while to do so.

When I go to bed at nights I like to hear the sound of the rains and smell their coolness. Every once in a while I'm remembered how powerful our father is. It is a beautiful place to see God's inherent beauties in man and in the earth, in the sea and in the heavens.

Mornings are nice, afternoons are nice, rain is nice, sundowns, nocturnal. The whole while! There will be no schools tomorrows, so the Willis and I will be spending some quality get-togethers at Manua Marketplace, I think, Airport Beach.... snorkelling, and the Chin (sp?) happy chin people will invite us to some din.

I' m guessing I' m used to the switch. Took some great pictures with the submarine digicam Danna found. Although we were only in the pool for about 20 mins, the train of rain was more powerful than I am used to, and Dean and I were both so weary.

Then, of course, I woke up every day around 6:00. Well, I think I'm still getting used to the clockwork. Tonight we start again to spend quality leisure with some members of the congregation. We' ll be with David (preacher at Tafuna/Dean's father), Tia (eldest of Tafuna), Bill (member of Tafuna/working with the young at Tafuna), Lynn (eldest of Tafuna/Dean's uncle) and Jerry (member of Tafuna.) Actually, I was just told that Tia is in West Samoa this weekend, so he won't be with us today.

It' a great period of community and conversational. But Dean and I will also be working a little on our DDPS plans and plans for the tweens and Sunday mornings. Dean' feels quite ill right now, so please keep him in your prayer. I thank you all for your marvelous help and your prayer!

We' re very happy to have such a beautiful group of acquaintances and families. 23. May 2011 - 7:10 o'clock Last week-end was a lot going on, but it will be like all our workdays are. High Schooler on Friday evening, tweens on Saturday afternoons and Bible classes for kids on Sunday mornings.

Tweening and Bible study are the days when Dean and I plan and teach it all. Things we have learned this weekends have gone well, but we definitely have room to do better. The majority of them remember Dean when he was living here two years ago. I' m really looking forward to our Teenage Weeks, for which we will be host.

I' m going to learn some sentences in Samoan this weekend, and I'm sure they will react better. Sometimes some of the people listened to me when I said they would be sitting here, but when they said it in Samoan, they would all come over to plump on the weed.

I' m hoping to know some catchphrases when we have our next Tween action. Look at the pictures and you will get it. On Sunday mornings, I was teaching the little children. Especially the younger ones have a hard job to fully grasp the instructions in English. It was a marvellous one. So we would sing in English and Samoan, usually praying in Samoan, and then we would have a sermon:

Willis preaches in English and Tia (one of the elders) translates into Samoan. We will plan a great deal and circumnavigate the archipelago during this time. Today, Dean and I are going to run some shopping with David. I' ll be able to see the clinic, something else, and Pago Pago Harbor.... You can find pictures on-line via Google Pictures, or you can just waiting for me to publish pictures.

And I think we're also planing a walk and another round of golf next weekend. And I also hopefully Danna and I will find a moment to make a "puletasi". Danna gave me a lava. I have to take photos so you can see what a lava looks like.

Well, I suppose I'm just not used to the timing or so. We' re only at work for the parish in the mornings, so it really was a cold daytime. Every single second I go back into my room at dawn, I get afraid of a little tad in my way.

Dean' s been blogging recently, so make sure you check out hiss. but I want to do it without even realizing what Dean wrote. I' ll be uploading pictures when I publish my own blogs, but if you have a faq, you might as well check out some of them.

We have photographed the Pago Pago harbour and the flowerpot. We will snorkel in the Flower Pot. Today Dean and I spend the afternoon in Danna's schoolroom. The fact that they call me Miss Kristen (sometimes Miss Christian) and she Dean, Miss Dean is my favourite part of Danna's teaching.

After waking up in the rains last evening, the current went out this mornings, which made for a rather tacky mornings. So we went to a little class to see Danna's class room and look around where Dean was spending his years. It was an awkward moment right after dinner and I went to the store.

in one of the school's class rooms. The members were so happy to listen to the Samoan speaking about Christianity and the meaning of Samoan christening. By the end of the summers I hopefully know enough Samoan words to at least comprehend the subject that is being discussed by the folks around me.

Dean found some geckoes to photograph for my mother after Bible school. And I know she'd like to be here with slugs, geckoes and turtles! Dean' s definitely braver than me when it comes to catch geckoes and getting near enough toads to take great pictures.

Good job, Dean! It was a really beautiful today, even though the moisture and the ill feeling were no better. But Dean and I will be Danna's help in the classroom, because her help will be in Apia with the high school students. Dean and I will also plan a little more in detail what we will be teaching the tweenes on Saturday afternoons and the children on Sunday mornings.

Thanks to everyone who reads them and looks at my photo on my page on your site! Here is a photo of all those impersonal pockets. Arrival at Austin TX International Airports at 4:30 a. m. last evening and at American Samoa Airports at 11:30 p. m. last evening (5:30 a. m. for Texas).

Waking up this mornin' (5:15 because my torso thought it was 11:15), watching the gorgeous sun rise with Dean, going out for some great wildlife photography (including big snails), eating breakfasts and now I'm write! It' been a lovely one so far...... oh yes. This is a lovely place to celebrate your twenty-first anniversary.

I have seen all the pictures I have seen on line (Google pictures), really not lied! I' m trying to record God's glory with my new digital video recorder, but I just can't. Me and Dean were queuing behind about 50 pockets, but no humans at all. Almost everyone on the plane returned home to American Samoa, so I got an initiation into the kindness of the area.

I and my mother like to hear conversation and watch in places like an airport to find out who is related to whom and how. But Dean told me that when folks talk, they probably don't talk about me unless I've hear the word'palagi', which is the term for'white people'.

When I got off the airplane, Dean pointed to the Southern Star.... which of course I've never seen before. And we went home, which Dean told me not to. I' m so grateful to have such beautiful boyfriends and families who are praying for me and encouraging me.

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