Just a quick post today but I found out an interesting story last
night. Turns out the little 19" TV that is in my place was the first
TV in Vaivase Tai. TJ told me that a bunch of people from around the
village used to come over to their house and sit around the little TV
to watch rugby games and boxing matches. It is truly amazing,
sometimes being surrounded by families that have TVs, mobile phones
and cars you can forget how quickly these technologies and luxuries
have come into Samoan life. In the states is has been a slow gradual
build up as new technology is developed but here it has not been so
much the case. That is why you can see families living out in
traditional fales, living off the land and the sea nearly every aspect
of thier life traditional Samoan except the cell phone they have!
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