Samoa's 50th Anniversary of Independence Performance:

Above, is a photo taken during our performance in Apia, Samoa during it's 50th Anniversary of Independence. It was quite a rainy day. There we were waiting in formation adorned in red feathers, red and yellow uniforms. The only thing that entered my head within the last five minutes before we actually performed was whether I was going to mess up the dance routines that we had practiced over and over again. My palms were clammy. There were beads of sweat accumulating on my forehead, and yet as soon as I heard a loud, "ATA MAI" ( that means to smile:) ), from one of the girls, I lit up. My jaws were wired in place and smiling (if falsely or truthfully) never felt so effortless. The whole dance itself came by so fast. All I could focus on at the moment were our line formations that our dance instructors have been so adamant on maintaining. It was a huge field, bu there were quite a few of us. However, we were as elegant as we were divine. The crowd was a bit difficult, but it wasn't until we ( the divas ) made our little routine, that the crowd started roaring with cheers and laughter. That was after all the effect that we were gunning for. After days and days of grueling practice, we have done it. We have brought our hearts from home to our neighboring island. We danced our hearts out, and we left with the lingering impression that guaranteed the audience that if we could do it one more time, there would be more. I was as proud as I ever was.We made the front page of Samoa's newspaper. They called our performance, "THE HIGHLIGHT OF ALL THE PERFORMANCES", they weren't exaggerating. It WAS.