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Thursday, 10 September 2020

The Legend of kava tonga

Today we had watched a tongan video. Before this video i didnt really understand what the point in kava was but now i understand that kava is special and keeps the peace in tonga. Have you ever wondered how special kava is to tonga?. So today my literacy class watched a video which was about a couple Fefanga and fefafa and their daughter living on a barren island. In the video the king and his men went to a island and were hungry and thirsty but there was no food on the island. So the couple had a chat about what to do because the king was sitting on the kape plant and the family did not want to disturb him because he was sleeping. When the couple finished talking they had decided to sacrifice there daughter to fulfil their obligation and duty there king

Ko founga hono ma'u'e Tonga 'a hono hingoa

 One day there lived a very big strong and muscular man and his name is Maui. One day he swam to samoa and meet a man named Tonga Taumata'u (The expert fisherman). So him and maui got along and then tonga asked maui if he would like one of his special looking hooks. But the interesting thing is that maui did not pick one of the special ones he picked the old ragged hook with spider webs all over it.


Maui then grabbed that hook and thanked tonga then maui asked tonga if he wanted anything back. Tonga then said "when you find a island name it after me" maui had accepted his request. So he went off and started fishing all of a sudden he hooked somthing very big not a fish not a whale but a island which he named TONGA