We cannot believe how fast time is passing for us. It seems like a new week is starting every time we turn around. We are convinced that it is because we are keeping so busy. We have been getting
things prepared for applying for accreditation of the ITEP certificate program by the government of Samoa. That has required a little more of our time above preparing and teaching our university courses. We also participated in a traditional Samoan meal and its preparation this week. We got to prepare the Umu (oven) and peel the taro (talo) and breadfruit (ulu). Most of the work was scraping out the coconut meat and preparing the milk for palusami.
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| # 2 Size Pig (pua'a) on the umu |
We put all of that on the hot rocks along with a #2 size pig (Pua'a) and covered it in leaves for an hour while it cooked. Our reward was a delicious meal with wonderfully-flavored coconut cream (palusami) to dip our breadfruit and taro into.
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| Palusami wrapped in breadfruit leaves cooking on an umu |
So far our health is holding. We have not been seriously sick other than eating a few things that did not agree with us. We feel like we are being blessed as we work to serve the teachers and children of Samoa. It is so rewarding for us to give a lesson to the teachers here and then visit their classrooms and see them using some of the things they have learned. We truly feel like we are making a difference when we see things like that.
things prepared for applying for accreditation of the ITEP certificate program by the government of Samoa. That has required a little more of our time above preparing and teaching our university courses. We also participated in a traditional Samoan meal and its preparation this week. We got to prepare the Umu (oven) and peel the taro (talo) and breadfruit (ulu). Most of the work was scraping out the coconut meat and preparing the milk for palusami. 
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