{"id":1431,"date":"2015-06-04T17:54:17","date_gmt":"2015-06-05T01:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=1431"},"modified":"2015-06-04T17:54:17","modified_gmt":"2015-06-05T01:54:17","slug":"the-voyage-of-the-hokulea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/the-voyage-of-the-hokulea\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Voyage of the Hokule\u2019a\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Jenna Beresheim\r\n Staff Writer<\/pre>\n
Students and Monmouth community members recently attended a trip through the Polynesian islands, eating authentic meals and watching traditional dances, all for under $20.<\/p>\n
Saturday, May 16, Western\u2019s Hawai\u2019i club hosted their 9th Annual Lu\u2019au, in tandem with the Nesian Club.<\/p>\n
The Lu\u2019au hosted over 20 dances ranging from Tahiti, Samoa, Aotearoa, and more. The evening started off with a dinner full of traditional foods such as Kalua pork, Poke, Mac Salad, and coconut cake.<\/p>\n
Between rounds of dances, volunteers were called to the stage to participate in fun games, such as trying to pronounce Pidgin – an accent based off of English with its own Hawaiian flair.<\/p>\n
\u201cPerforming at this year\u2019s Lu\u2019au was a really great experience for me, especially as a first year student,\u201d Erica Sanchez, first year dance major, said. She choreographed three dances for this Lu\u2019au.<\/p>\n
Other choreographers were Kamaka Keawekane, Tolu Tafai, Nikki Ki, Tavae Sina, Melody Andrada, Kaua Kauahi-Daniels, Courtney Costa, and Gianne Pabustan.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel that we did great, but the main thing is that we had fun,\u201d said Tafatolu Naea, a junior pre-fire service administration student and president of the Nesian Club. \u201cIt\u2019s always a pleasure to show others a taste of our Polynesian culture and dancing is a big part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Naea has participated in both Lu\u2019aus the two years he has attended, saying that, \u201cI\u2019m glad we got to represent some of the different Pacific Islands such as Fiji, Aotearoa, Tahiti, Hawai\u2019i, but especially my home land and the heart of the pacific islands, Samoa.\u201d<\/p>\n
The club\u2019s energy and passion was showcased in smiling faces and powerful dancing, even with a few whooping \u201cCheehooos!\u201d from the crowd and dancers alike.<\/p>\n
\u201cShout out to a good friend Alyssa Carvahlo who\u2019s a senior and in the Hawai\u2019i club,\u201d Naea added. \u201cShe played a huge role in putting the Lu\u2019au together. You the one!\u201d<\/p>\n
This was the final year of Carvahlo\u2019s participation as a Western student, as she will be graduating in a few weeks with the class of 2015. Carvahlo even created a dance as tribute to all of her friends and connections as a parting gift to the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By Jenna Beresheim Staff Writer Students and Monmouth community members recently attended a trip through the Polynesian islands, eating authentic meals and watching traditional dances, all for under $20. Saturday, May 16, Western\u2019s Hawai\u2019i club hosted their 9th Annual Lu\u2019au, in tandem with the Nesian Club. The Lu\u2019au hosted over 20 dances ranging from Tahiti, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":1442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-life"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}