Friday, April 23, 2010

Apitanga

In the Easter holidays lots of family's from my church slept at church, because we had this thing in Tongan called Apitanga. Everyone was so excited In Tongan tradition this is really important for us. Because how God died for our sins, Every night we heard the cookers downstairs the boys sleeps downstairs,and us girls sleeps upstairs. We would eat at the middle of the night and talk and laugh.I think our parents did not appreciate it.So we all kept the volume down.In the next morning we would wake up at 6:00 in the morning.We would have teams I was with the priest the little kids had sports outside ,so they were really LUCKY. We would talk about lots of staff.All the kids couldn't wait till Breakfast started. On Sunday night we had this thing.We had to pick a Judge,if you missed out in any program or did other bad things you did you will get a fine. Before Apitanga people already picked the polices, a girls one and a boys one. My auntie was the judge,she will ask why did they do that thing they got,fine for. She will still fine them she'll talk like it will be a small bill but its like $100 and over but likely the kids didn't get fine. Last year 3 kids got fine. So that was funny how the adults got fine. The money was given all to the priest,cause he just came from Tonga. I REALLY ENJOY APITANGA CANT WAIT TILL NEXT YEARS

1 comment:

  1. What a fantastic explanation of Apitanga Rachael. I had no idea about this until I read your post and I have really enjoyed it. Thank you for taking the time to write about it. Mrs Burt

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