Thurs, Dec 7, 2006; GO TEAM KOULO!!

Team Koulo - Karen (Keleni), Sarah (Sela), Me (Kali), Jessica (Sesi), & Tasi - our fearless leader

hi all!!
just a brief message to brag about how TEAM KOULO (my village language group team) won the Tongan Jeapardy contest yesterday!! GO TEAM!! we are all over the tongan language, let me tell you! the competition was fierce, but we overcame the odds to gain the lead and hold steady! and now we are the champs!! hip hip hooray!! malie, malie, malie!!

in other championship news, the combined holopeka-koulo rugby team (which i am obviously not at all a part of as it is for men and involves a certain amount of aggression which i do not possess) won saturday's game versus pangai (the main town). go koulo!! my brothers are all on the team, well actually one is on the team, one is the water boy and the others hang out with the team as an excuse to drink a lot of kava after the games.

i also saw the world's fattest pig this past week - think 3 chins, AND i have continued to manage to avoid getting scabies (the scabes as we affectionately call it over here).

also interesting, in the tongan language there is word for wanting to eat someone else's food (uakai), eating food on the sly (kaipo - you are supposed to share all food sot his is really offensive), eating standing up (kaitu'u) and stuffing your mouth (faka'afa'afa) but no word for being early or feeling frustrated. interesting, huh!
toki sio (see you later!)
carly (keli)