After growing up in Maine (a beautiful place with many wonderful aspects, cultural diversity not being one of them), it is a cultural feast, or fiesta in this case, to be here on Saipan. I only took a few pictures tonight, but they make my point. Besides the many varieties of food on the buffet table, we enjoyed presentations from Pohnpei, Thailand, The Philippines, Japan, Chuuk, U.S., Peru, the Marshall Islands, and Kiribati among others. Some of the people that are in our church here that did not present tonight are from China, Samoa, Nepal, etc.
Pohnpei, Chuuk, the Marshalls, and Kiribati are some of the other Pacific Islands. There are thousands of islands out here with rich and widely varied cultures; over 1,000 islands make up the Philippines alone! The Pacific is amazingly vast--for example, Saipan is 10 time zones from Maine (going across the U.S.) with 7 of them being over the Pacific!
I mixed up a little in posting these, but it's too late to bother to try to fix it. Enjoy!
2 comments:
okay, i've looked at your blog. but it's only about the cultural day, sooooo, i'm still not sure why you didn't send us family letters. i mean, it's good, but i assume that there is more than just that that's happened... of course, i could certainly be wrong.
Wait'll I get the clip of Jacob's band...the sound didn't come out on ours, but I'm going to try to get Sister L's.
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