So here is Samoa...the dancing picture gives a little taste of what the Samoan culture is like...dancing and REALLY brightly colored outfits (called Pulatassi's) in front of large crowds. If you get "summoned" up there to dance in front of the whole village, you have to... The week before in Savaii, a different island of Samoa, we had learned how to do the Samoan dance, but I unfortunately lack the graceful moves that you need to be truly Samoan ;) So I was summoned up there in my dress (most hideous I might add...it's like putting every single wildflower together and adding puffed sleeves to the mix) and danced my heart out...and now my peers daily remind me and everyone else of the "Dana dance" that I so eloquently performed :) The night of this dance party celebration called the FiaFia with the whole Faga village (where we stayed in Samoan homes) was one of the best nights that I have ever had. I think I should bring it back to the states... ;)
