Konoseti

December 21, 2012

They had a church fundraiser in my village last night, which consisted of a lot of dancing and kava drinking. How these work is the church sets up a dance, which is mostly the older women of the village and everyone comes and gives money. Every song women and kids get up and dance around and the people come up and give money, then the song ends and they count the money say thanks and repeat for about 3 or 4 hours. There are also tou’olungas and it gets real crazy when the women get one of the men from the kava circle- that was going on in the background- to come up and dance. It was a lot of fun and everyone died when I danced with a girl so it was pretty easy to keep the crowd entertained. I took this opportunity to mingle so I was drinking kava in the back with the men, hanging outside with some of the youth, drinking kava outside with the guys who brought the speakers from a different village, and dancing in the middle when a song came on that I liked.

from the back where the kava circle was set up. As you can see the men are drinking kava and the women and kids are in the center dancing

Holomesi dancing in the back, I have a video of this that is priceless!

there are specific dances too, this is one of the ones the younger girls did. The lady walking away had just gone up to give some money- they do this by putting the money down the dancers shirts.

one of the tou’olungas