Puletasi's: The puletasi is the traditional Samoan dress for women. It is a two piece dress with a skirt and a top and it is usually worn to cultural events, church, and to any formal event.
This is Joanne's puletasi that she had made in Apia. It cost 50 tala which is about $25.
These are the Vanuatu girls who stay in the dorms. We have 13 students from Vanuatu, 6 girls and 7 boys. They come in January and stay until December. The girls all went out and had puletasi's made so they could take them home with them in December.
Drying Clothes and Bedding
This is how they dry their clothes. They put them on cars, on bushes, on the sidewalks, and on lava rocks.
This is a car from a different family. It drys the clothes fast and it also keeps their cars from getting too hot inside. Double purpose.
This is how they dry and air out the mattresses at the boys dorm. At first Joanne thought they were repairing the roof but a closer inspection found out that they were just drying their mattresses and pillow (and sometimes clothes).
The only problem with drying clothes up on the roof is that it is really hard to get them down if you get a sudden rain storm. We get those sudden rainstorms all the time so it is always a risky business.
These are of Fish Market in Apia
This is the fish market. The round cuts at the corner are yellow fin tuna and are very good. They and masi masi are our favorites. Each round cut costs about 25 tala or $12.50 for one and a half or 2 pounds of meat.
The big one in the middle is a masi masi and they will fillet for us. The whole fish (depending on the size) costs between 50 and 85 tala but you get quite a bit of meat from it. They always ask if you want the head and the skeleton and we take them so we can go feed the pigs over behind the church compound. The pigs are very interesting to watch as they eat the fish parts.
These are more tuna, with a masi masi right in the middle. Notice the size of the head in the plastic. Some people come in specifically to buy the heads.
These are octopus and lobster, very interesting to look at what you have eaten in the past month or so.
Here are some eels and more octopus. We haven't had an opportunity to try eels yet. Maybe in the future, Joanne isn't very excited to try them.
Lots of little fish to try but we don't know how to cook them so we stay with the ones that we know.
They have lots of eels, blue fish, lobster and other interesting fish.
This is a table of live crabs. They have the elastic bands on so they don't bite you while you are looking. Not good for business.
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