Bula Vinaka
Bula Vinaka means "welcome" in Fijian. As our Crossroads DTS got underway this week, we treated all the new students (as well as the Korean DTS students, and ESL as well) to a traditional Fijian "pig in the ground" (well, TWO pigs, actually -- there were a lot of mouths to feed).
Yesterday, I brought all of our family's collection of djembe's to the base, and if you think the haka was boisterous, you should have seen and heard the hour-long worship time when Fijians, Canadians, Tongans, Koreans, Swiss, Germans, Americans and South Africans let loose.
This is going to be a fun Discipleship Training School, methinks!
 | Click on the picture to see the traditional haka that the Fijians performed in our humble dining hall to welcome the students. (File size approx. 4.5MB, but totally worth it, trust me!) |
This is going to be a fun Discipleship Training School, methinks!
posted by Robbymac at
10:15 PM
9 Comments:
oh that's fantastic. I am totally jealous of your time after
That's excellent! I miss the days of doing the Haka (or the Cibi, which is the Fijian equivelant- the Haka being Maori). Too much fun!
Peace,
Jamie
Lovin It! Wish I was there for the party...
Mak,
Sorry to provoke jealousy in you, but it WAS a great deal of fun (and the pigs were delicious!).
Jamie,
Explaining the difference is too time-consuming, and after having to explain it so many times, the Fijians (and the rest of us) just call it the haka and leave it at that.
Yesterday, we had the "Kava Ceremony" with just our Crossroads students and the Fijians -- very moving, and an honour to be invited to participate in it.
Christina,
I'll just BET you were wishing you were here! It wouldn't have anything to do with that good-looking guy with the dreads, would it? :)
See you next week!
Man, I can only imagine the drums in worship time. We're all quiet down here at the moment. I miss the vibrancy of new students, I miss big community times of a base...
A Kava Ceremony? As in REAL Kava??? How you going to work that?
Stu,
Yep. REAL Kava. Right from the kava tree root. It has a taste all it's own. I had several bowls (we even had traditional drinking bowls); it's a different kind of taste, but I really liked it.
Ah, Robby... We volunteered in Kona all last fall and they were heavily involved in the Fijian people. Our CDTS doesn't start until Friday but we are already here in England, adjusting to more of a cultural change that we anticipated. Sounds exciting. Once we get going you will have to check out what we write about.
Oh, yumm, I wish I could hear them 'life' again... hey, maybe in a year or two....
Was the pig in the ground, just like the chicken in the ground we had in High Level???
give them all a big hug from us (often not so flexible) Dutch!
Freakin' Way,
Yup. Pig in ground, just like our feast in High Level last summer.
And we'd absolutely LOVE to have you guys join us as staff here! Soon and very soon, please?!?
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