An Incredible Day At The Polynesian Cultural Center In HAWAII - Sea Turtles & Drinking From Coconuts
Polynesian Cultural Center Hawaii
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welcome everyone Adam the woo here as
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the recording of This is Thursday
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December 12th
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2024 in Hawaii
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aahu families with me five of us
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counting myself are going to the
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Polynesian Cultural Center an amazing
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Place mom and I went last year this time
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my sister her husband and my dad are
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also going to be tagging along and I'm
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inviting you to join
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me shall you
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just want to show the scenic beauty of
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this Shoreline here the waves crashing
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good waves coming up on shore amongst
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the Rocks we stopped off here at this
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Cove before commuting towards the
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cultural center because turtles like to
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congregate right here in the
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bend of this Shoreline okay take a
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look right there just relaxing amongst
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the waves
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that is so
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chilling you just enjoying watching the
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watching the waves crashing you are very
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attentive to the Shoreline aren't you
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chicken little
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chickens little chickens
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chickens
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beautiful so
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beautiful a lot of people over there
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looking at that Turtle a guide showed up
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kind of roped off the area here said
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that this turtle is 41 years old named
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khi very well known around these parts
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and there's a lot of surfers out
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too on the road a bit is this Lagoon
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Coral Lagoon I think it's called Shark's
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amazing got a little time before the
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Center opens so instead of waiting in
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the parking lot for it to open opens at
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12:30 we just stopped off here we're
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enjoying the views just keep going down
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the shoreline
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else a seag glass place right here got
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some
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clothing clothing items over here
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a
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squid turtle and here's a little owl
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down here and a
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turkey it's like a bird right
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there holding a
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snake and they ended up purchasing
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another little little jibit from my Croc
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little hoola dancing Stitch right there
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over there in this little development I
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made it here I think it
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some point today I'm going to buy have
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to buy one of those big brimmed hats the
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sun is pretty poignant just to keep the
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sun off my nose and face we've arrived a
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little bit of wind today too you see all
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the different flags and palm trees up
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there waving in the breeze this place is
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awesome here the here's the distance to
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some certain areas Chicago is 4,239
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Miles Mexico 3,568 miles Samoa 2581 and
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Fiji 3,152
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miles have a variety of T of not
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t-shirts but hats over here I'm going to
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go with this one right here this is the
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this is the one I'm going to get it kind
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of matches my shirt also about 10
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minutes before the gates open at 12:30
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it's about 12:20 right now so I got
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myself a poke bowl and I got myself a
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little sushi roll right here this is a
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spicy tuna Pokeball so I'm going to get
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and I got a little extra avocado dad got
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some I got some uh fish and chips over
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here looks pretty good pretty good size
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chunks of fish we are now heading in so
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Mom and Dad rented the ecvs we're at a
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bad price $50 a day to rent those now
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the price of admission to get in is $100
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a day for guests see what we mean we
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might not have everything that others
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have but we have each other
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so just one more stop on your poian
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adventure must SE Village of
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thing about that show is this guy is up
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there clapping and dancing and then he
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just like plummets into the river got on
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my
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and that means
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welcome the last word he
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said the neighbors are eating obviously
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those young men got this Stu together we
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haven't been fed here yet our parents
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are still sitting there waiting for the
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food watching in the neighbors e you
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fail it's disrespectful and embarrassing
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not to have the food very on
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time and they'll let you know that you
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fail tonight it won't happen again
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tomorrow no
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question check this this is my last my
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first day
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man school I'm sure he was PR to
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everybody say
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fire a a in same thing
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in Malaysia
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Indonesia for the looks go for the
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smell if he has both
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get if he has not run with your you hear
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the chicken like hurry up at the fire
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come Catch Me If You Can I believe I
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can here we go if it gets out of control
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right that way there's no back
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door oh wow and this is why I'm
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H that's
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why you want to take a picture of
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that it will last longer ear into your
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give
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goodness before you purchase any thank
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you before you Pur any c sure the you're
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buying has the
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face in America
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not
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crack first thing ever coconut juice
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water from heaven
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57 years old still cling free somebody
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scream now let's have this young man
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here jump over to the next
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Tre everybody say
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also I my
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mind okay family are you
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ready oh come on are you ready
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JUMP are you guys
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crazy chicken sorry not today there are
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the only two left last week was windy we
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lost nine of them and they all Rest In
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Pieces now get your cameras ready he's
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going to post for you just like how he
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post for the calendar sponsored by Sao
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eat fresh done tomorrow action January
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February
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Maru that's enough hey how about a big
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hand for a true
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cler please go home and don't try it
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list that we have some activities for
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you all right going to continue our way
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around the Polynesian Islands here on to
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the next little
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spot cooking some meat over here look at
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this
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I appreciate it all right got a coconut
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here a little coconut water
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cheers creamy Delicious coconut water
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the thing that's interesting is I do not
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like the taste of coconut coconut flakes
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for some reason the liquid version of
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the water
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tolerable for me it's
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refreshing cheers do you like
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it it's not bad right not bad at all
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feels good on my
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throat
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refreshing
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pared ah there's the Easter Easter
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Island right
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the culture protocols that were just
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shaped with few began with the voice of
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we extended a call of Welcome to each of
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you here tonight
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I'm this is over in Fiji this is the
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Chief's house they kindly request that
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you remove hats for coming in here it
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must be the chief's
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house going to get on to the most SC
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part so now guys look over to this time
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wow there you go guys thank you for
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saying that because in fian weapons are
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called wow it's spelled is so you
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two boy thank you so much for in Village
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I hope we can make to Fiji someday 6
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hours from here you'll find yourself in
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beautiful Fiji have a wonderful
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afternoon
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and all right the this is a fan canoe
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right here that's what this
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is another angle of
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it what
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almost time for the next show over here
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Fiji this is a story about a group of
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people that travel through the vast
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Pacific Ocean using the celestial
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navigation the moon the stars and the
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Sun as they look for their new home this
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is the story about the Peter people the
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ancesters of the first Polynesians
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now our Story begins about 4,000 years
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ago in the east of the South Pacific
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Islands was completely
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uninhabited the region we now refer to
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today as the Polynesians group of
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Island if there any evidence of human
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existence it was in the fringes of the
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Western Pacific Islands in place like
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papun guini the Solomon tmania
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they willistic Society people they
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practice animatism and build sacred
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temples of worship like this
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one the high priest prayed to the Gods
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on behalf the chief and his people
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notice that our Temple is highly
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elevated the Bel was the to of the
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structure the closing the communications
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with our ancestral
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Gods the gods have granted blessings to
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the Chief and his people these newcomers
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introduced a new social hierarchy system
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where the chief Le titles were inherited
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by bloodline and Chiefs will believe to
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be descendants of in bu a dance called T
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dep picted the safe arrival to this new
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found land
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tambua can everyone say tambua tambua
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the tambua the SPs too that use a gift
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of esteem and atonement and us your
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negotiation between Ral Chiefs and
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tribes we use tambua in many of our
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ceremonies one such ceremon is called a
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dungi ceremony where T Bo is presented
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to a father asking for his daughter's
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hand in marriage and this are normally
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done to solidify and Forge alliances
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between tribes what you're about to
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witness now is a condensed version a
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reenactment of AI
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ceremony is the highest form of respect
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that Chiefs Accord each other
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acknowledging ranks and titles seral
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such as these for stct protocols and
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only honorific language of Chiefs and
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Nobles are used
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the other one is called NAA the short
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throwing
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GL the short throwing CL get quite
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deadly when the opponent is trying to
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escape but the most commonly used weapon
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is
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the for
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right here gu that was the Hawaii show
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the hula
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show oh yeah
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we doing some carving over here
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tiis over inah now okay family now today
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we're going to be learning some tahan
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dancing has given us life these are the
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sounds of tear headed the voices of love
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forever
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with water from the sea we wash the
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sacret temple and prepare it for the
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ceremony to come it is the salt in the
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water that that cleanses and blesses us
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with salt we Safeguard our houses
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preserve our food protect our children
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heal our wounds and purify our souls so
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the blessings of life may be ours
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forever washed clean and made new we
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dress the temple in preparation for the
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wedding ceremony in honor of our
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ancestors
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look at the uh fish down here there's a
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bunch of fish look at all these fish
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right over
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here fish down in there oh yeah the
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birds we just put a little fish food in
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there birds are also enjoying it should
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jump in
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there jump in now over to
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Tonga next show is going to be at
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4:30 right here we're at Tonga Snack
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Shack I'm going to get a shave ice
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strawberry mango and P
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and when we do that we're going to ya
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the best village in the PCC which
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is did I hear
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some okay we're going to guys okay TR
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one more time together ready 3 2
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1 how was that B that was terrible that
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was terrible okay we're going to try
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that one more time everyone bring it
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back ready louder three two
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one I think we're going to go ahead and
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do the boat ride now we' pretty much
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gone through most of it it's kind of
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neat cuz the last time I was here I did
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a few different shows and most of the
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shows I did today I didn't do the last
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time so it's kind of neat did a few last
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time and a few new ones this time so
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definitely a good experience this right
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here was used uh there's a photograph of
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Elvis and the whole cast of movie that
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was filmed out here Elvis filmed quite a
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few movies in Hawaii they film one here
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at the Polynesian Cultural Center one of
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the last canoes of the evening
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round trip
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tour are you
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ready are you ready to
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swim
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no don't worry family we're not going to
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let you
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Okay so this
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bridge also brings good luck if you can
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touch it without standing up you get
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good luck all
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right welcome family but before we get
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headed a couple safety reminders for
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everybody please remain seated at all
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times and always keep your hands your
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things and your feet inside the canoe
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while we are moving all
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right uh we are going to introduce
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ourselves to you my name is Captain Jas
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from the Philippines I'm going to be the
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main navigator for today but I'm not the
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most important person here it's going to
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be my friend at the back can you say Alo
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to my friend
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Tyler Bridges connects us to our
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families from different
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Islands okay family the first island
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that I'm going to talk to you about is
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the island on this side okay my family
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at the Fort row can you try to read a
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word that starts with letter
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A nice out here
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it is a aroa so a aroa is the Polynesian
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name for New
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Zealand it means long white
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cloud it was discovered using the
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wayfinding technique by the master
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navigator from Tahiti his name
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isoa or in English look koe a long white
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cloud and that's where where where they
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got their name from a aroa the land of
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the long white
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Cloud also in Ho aroa the way we greet
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each other we say Kiora can you say Kora
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Kora that's right I'll tell you about
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different um breing words as well from
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different Islands here at the
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center this way because this side is the
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mountain side this side is the ocean so
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if you see a bunch of clouds they got
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dropped by the
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mountains and that's how they saw the
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AOA island or the island of the long
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white cloud because they saw a bunch of
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clouds and they went into that bunch of
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clouds and they discovered out here for
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sure so when we tell them bulah vaka it
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means we are wishing them good
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health the people in Fiji are also known
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as the master canoe Builders if you're
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able to visit this place earlier you'll
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see a canoe that is similar to what
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Moana used in the movie we call it the
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tamak cow the tamak cow this side this
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is the Kingdom of Tonga we call it
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Kingdom of Tonga because it is the only
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remaining Monarch in Tonga or in
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Polynesia they are never colonized by
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any other countries in Tonga the way we
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say hi we say Malo can you say Malo Mal
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that's right they're also known as The
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Friendly people in Polynesia they always
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happy always energetic people in Tonga
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and these can
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in the Kingdom of Tonga are called the
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popo popow is designed for shallow water
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activities only we don't use them in
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Long voyages so if you remember in the
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beginning of the movie Moana when she
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tried to go beyond the refusing this
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canoe they went well that statue those
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statues are called moai statues from the
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island of
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rapanui raanu is what we know today as
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Easter
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Islands in rapu we could continue to
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guide them that's why the moai statues
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are facing the village and not the ocean
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okay can any can any of you try to guess
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what those red things are on their
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heads what's your name family Jim
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everybody say good job
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Jim that's the wrong
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answer not a hat so those red things are
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called
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POA POA represents the hair of the chief
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they believe that the longer the hair
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the chief got the more Mana or power he
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has
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so the last one without the hair I don't
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know what happened my friend told me
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that he got married and he lost the
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power okay family so this is the actual
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size of a moai statue this it is called
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by rapanui Artisans way back in the
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1960s in rapanui they have the hardest
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greeting word everybody repeat after me
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say o la la do they speak Spanish today
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this is the Miracle bridge I call it the
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miracle Bridge because the longer you
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touch it the cleaner it
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gets how many times did you hit your
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head on the bridge
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twice okay the last Island family this
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is on the island of Samoa in Samoa the
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way we say hi we say talofa can you say
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talofa talofa that's right if you also
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drop the tea off alofa it says alofa in
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Samoa alofa means love ala everybody and
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your loved ones tell them I alofa you I
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alofa you so sweet
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family okay sh all right you want to
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move to
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samaa okay family but before we end I
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want to tell you one more thing about
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the Hawaiian culture putting flowers on
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your ears is meaning if you put a flower
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on the right side of your ear it means
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you are single and ready to
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mle if you put a on the left side of
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your ear it means you are married taken
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captured or
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stuck but don't put the flower on both
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sides of your ears my boss told me it
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means trouble it means you are married
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but you're still looking for an
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upgrade all right family Bala for
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voyaging with us but before we end I
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want to teach you a Hawaiian proverb
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everybody repeat after me
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say it means every canoe is our Island
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every island is our canoe how we live
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and work inside our canoe is how we
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should live and work in the land all
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right family before we end can you give
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us one more one last time one loud
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Aloha
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Al one L Mahalo Mahal all right you know
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guys know the meaning of mahalo
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thank you yeah it means thank you oh
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yeah it also means get
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out enjoy the rest of the day here at
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the poan cultural center thank you you
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may now exit to your right hand and
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that's going to do it for today from the
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Polynesian Cultural Center highly
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recommend this place the second time I
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was here last year here last September
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my mom and I visited Hawaii this time
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there was a group of five of us everyone
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enjoyed it and I got to see quite a few
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things I didn't get to see last time
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almost like you really need to be here
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two times because each area has
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different things different shows
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different experiences and it really
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takes up a lot of the day it is is
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quite quite a
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place thanks for watching I'll see you
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in the next video the Vlog is over