Frankton Market, Kanikapila, & Pavlova

This past weekend, Aunty Noenoe (another of Kama's contacts) picked us up and we went to the Frankton Market, which is a "swap meet" type of event that happens every Saturday.  Local vendors set up their booths along both sides of the street and everyone hangs out for the day.  It's not nearly as big as Swap Meet, but it's pretty popular amongst the locals.  People were selling fruits, fleece blankets, tshirts, wood furniture, mats.... the list goes on!  Logan got a really cool "Maori" blanket and a tshirt.  I didn't get anything (Surprise!), but I really enjoyed walking around.  There were people just sitting on the picnic tables talking and enjoying each other's company and some were playing music. 

Aunty Noenoe asked us if we would help her sing Manu 'O'o for her performance in the uni's show exhibiting the dances of the kapa haka classes here at uni.  She was asked to perform a hula and she chose Manu 'O'o, but she wanted help singing it.  (She's going to sing and dance the song!)  We went over to her house for dinner on Sunday night to practice and she cooked us a greeeeeat meal.  We had teriyaki beef, chicken, sushi rice, nori & PAVLOVA! We finally got to try Pavlova :) It's NZ's most famous dessert consisting of whipped cream, a cakey foundation, fruit garnishes... and some other secret ingredients which I couldn't pick out.  It was yummmmy!  Kamakana, Leo, Logan, and myself went over for dinner and practice.  I'm not too fond of my singing abilities (or lack thereof), so I decided that I didn't want to sing in the performance.  But anyway, we sang the song a few times, and watched Sione's Wedding, a Samoan movie filmed in New Zealand.  It was hilarious! I must say, NZ film's are prettttty funny.