Oma and Opa Arrive

 

Clancy’s Oma and Opa arrived today, to a very excited little boy. They are staying 2 weeks after initially being delayed by the South American Volcanic ash cloud and Virgin’ s aircraft scheduling. They were supposed to be here for Opa’s birthday on the 7^th of June, so we had a cake and celebration waiting for the night they arrived.

Walking Clanga

At low tide today we took Clanga for a walk along the refueling line down on the seafront

Surfing Hatafu

Clancy paddles out for another one at Hatafu Beach

ACTS Cultural Week - Videos

These videos have been uploaded at low quality because of the file size. Sorry we can't do any better than this from Tonga. The video files Clancy 1, 2 and 3 are of Clancy's Island drumming performance.







This is Clancy telling the story of making Ipu Kava


Ipu Kava

ACTS Cultural Week

Clancy's school has had a cultural week which finished with a performance on Thursday night. Clancy had two role's, one as drummer and the other telling the story of how to make Ipu Kava (Coconut Cup for drinking Kava)


The raw and the finshed product (Ipu Kava). The next blog has a video of Clancy telling the story


Karmen, Taipe, Richie and Clancy before the show and Lupate'a and Mimosa. Apologies if the spelling is wrong, this from Clancy's pronunciation, which is generally pretty good.


The families watching intently. Parents and family members show their appreciation by tucking money into the costumes of the children. The money is then collected and becomes a community donation for the school. Clancy didn't realise the money goes to the school and after being given some money during his performance was quiet upset that someone was taking it. He didn't realise the protocol and explained, somewhat upset, his teacher what had happened.


Clancy's drumming performance (a new Phil Collins?) and Anny giving donations.


A very proud mum and dad

Long Weekend Activities

It was a long weekend in Tonga dampened by rain and wind. By Monday it had started to clear a little and we got a little more active


Clancy said he wanted to learn how to cook his breakfast, so we cooked sausages and scrambled eggs. Unfortunately he burnt his finger on the side of the pan while dishing up the sausages, but he wants another lesson.


After breakfast we collected Mosese for a play and they spent the morning playing star wars and space rangers


We then went for a drive to Keleti beach for a run around with Jenny Mckee, her children Blaise and Jessie, along with Jack and Neisi (Dom and Hannah's kids)

Art Zooka Competition

One of Clancy's favorite shows on cable TV is Art Zooka which is about creating and art. This morning Clancy advised Anny and I that he is running an Art Zooka competition and we are the competitors and he will judge. The rules are we must be nice and not copy each other.


The judge photographs with the competitors,


then starts the difficult task of judging before making the announcement from his own artwork, the podium


and announcing the competition is a draw!