Name the days of the week in Hawaiian

Once severely endangered, knowledge of the Hawaiian language is being restored thanks to recent revitalization efforts. Let’s help celebrate this beautiful language by learning a few words. Can you name the days of the week in Hawaiian?

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Alaisa fa’apopo – Samoan coconut rice

Lots of Asian countries do a coconut and rice dish, but they don’t do it like Samoans do. (As far as I know.)

Alaisa fa’apopo literally means rice that’s been coconut’ed, which of course means that we’ve done something very coconut-y to the rice.

(I’m cracking myself up right now).

It’s all true, though.

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Why I love telling stories with animation

I’m an inner-city kid born and raised Auckland Central so I was exposed to animation at a very young age. We had comics, morning cartoons, arcade games at the local dairy, old cartridge video games and movies. Animation was all around me, so I soaked it up like a sponge and put pen (or pencil) to paper whenever I could. Like most kids, my first animations were done in the corner of big textbooks in class usually involving a couple stickmen fighting.

I loved animation; it spoke to me in ways other forms of media just couldn’t.

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What does Manaui mean?

=”1″ =”4.16″ =”{}” ]The short answer? Manaui represents the nurturing land from which we rise, stretch out into the world, but never abandon. No matter

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