Samoan Language Week

Talofa  Lava
This week we have been celebrating  Samoan culture. We got to learn the language, food and game.
At garden to Table  Hamida and Falete showed us how to make coconut cream. First, the coconut flesh had to be scraped out. Falete sat on a wooden plank and at the end of the plank was a blade. Falete got coconut and put it on the blade, then he moved the coconut up and down. Soon there was a lot of coconut stripes in the bowl. Some children got to have a turn to scrape the coconut. Here are some pictures:

After showing us how to scrape the coconuts flesh, Falete showed us how to make the flesh into the cream. He got the coconuts husk and washed it, after that he put a little bit of coconut flesh into the husk. Then he turned the husk and while he turned it, the coconut flesh squeezed out of the husk and turned into the cream.

We also got to play Lape which is a Samoan game. It is like softball but instead of using a bat, you use your hand to bat the ball. We played Lape with Room 24, I really enjoyed the game.