Fakaalofa atu all - back into DFI after being MIA for a minute. Week 1 was a busy week at school with Niue Language Week getting ready to take off with Monday formal opening ceremony - with a guest speaker Faama Viliamu Co-ordinator for 531PMN News Niue, also a guest performer - Choreographer for dance troupe Fiti Lose Miss Shevalyn Poimafiti. It was awesome to see some of our grandparents/parents there to support their children. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday was tabloid traditional games during lunch. Some of those traditional games were 'toume - niuean skis' 'sikeka-good ole stilts' 'olo fua niu-bowling using coconuts', 'volu niu-coconut scraping' and 'toho toua-tug o war'. Great fun had by teachers and students.
Then Friday came around and we were fortunate to have one of our relievers Mr Frank Haioti come back and organise a umu demonstration with a few students getting the hands on experience on prepping a Niue umu. Our closing ceremony was just a good as our opening, where we had another guest speaker 'my mom' and a few of our niuean parents/families present at our formal assembly. We had class performances and than the grand finale by our Niuean Cultural group. Our girls gave a beautiful performance and our boys wrecked that stage with the NIUE TAKALO
(War dance). The highlight though was the opening of the umu (could smell the food from the hall) and the shared lunch. All the hot food was brought straight out of the umu straight onto the table 👀 We had so much food from umu foods (niue dishes), salads, freshly baked coconut bread, drinks and curries.
Then Friday came around and we were fortunate to have one of our relievers Mr Frank Haioti come back and organise a umu demonstration with a few students getting the hands on experience on prepping a Niue umu. Our closing ceremony was just a good as our opening, where we had another guest speaker 'my mom' and a few of our niuean parents/families present at our formal assembly. We had class performances and than the grand finale by our Niuean Cultural group. Our girls gave a beautiful performance and our boys wrecked that stage with the NIUE TAKALO 
(War dance). The highlight though was the opening of the umu (could smell the food from the hall) and the shared lunch. All the hot food was brought straight out of the umu straight onto the table 👀 We had so much food from umu foods (niue dishes), salads, freshly baked coconut bread, drinks and curries. 
We sat down to enjoy our lunch with Wesley Intermediate staff, students leaders, parents and friends. The were entertained by our parents with a few traditional niuean celebration songs to end our lunch. Although I missed session 5 I was able to use google sheets for our budget, google hangouts so that students could see what was going on at the umu site. Overall was a awesome week - bring on 2020. Massive shout-out to Wesley Intermediates senior management team who supported our week from beginning to end oue tulou!
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