Samoan+Cultural+Camp

Our Cultural Visit to Samoa - March 2011 caused a tsunami, that struck the coast at 7:30 in the morning. We visited one of the worst hit areas - Lananomu, on the south - east corner of the main island of Upolu. Most of the fales (traditional houses) were completely destroyed. All that was left of many, were the concrete graves that sit out the front of these homes. It must have been terrifying for families because in places there were steep cliffs behind their homes, meaning they coud not escape the giant wave. Some families are rebuilding their homes in exactly the same place because they don't believe it will ever happen again. ||
 * [[image:kaitiekeola/tsunami.jpg width="340" height="215"]] || In 2009 an earthquake happened under the sea off the coast of Samoa. This

The water is verry cold and when you hop in it you might get a wedegy when you land. ||
 * [[image:kaitiekeola/raven_shardenae.jpg width="342" height="251"]] || This is the sliding rocks in Samoa. It is a waterfall that is like an actual rock slide.Sometimes the water goes down quicker than usawil and it is really fun when you go down it.

sides and it has a weaved blind that comes down. Fales are made out of wooden poles and have a wooden floor. Inside the fale there was nothing buut mattresses and a mosquito net. We also stayed by a beach so we went swimming every day after we had done our journals. We also had a lot of coconuts every day. Kaleb and Kody ||
 * [[image:kaitiekeola/Fale_123.jpg width="348" height="187"]] || This is a fale that we stayed 3 nights in. A fale is like a little hut that has no

Josh ||
 * [[image:kaitiekeola/103_1276.jpg width="352" height="225"]] || This is me swimming with turtles. We didn't expect it to be like that, we thought that there would at least be a board with imformation. The experience was good but we didn't learn any thing. It was one of the most memroble things about samoa. Some of the rocks were the same couler as the turtles so I acedently stood on it and it chucked me off and I cut my leg.