Mike Foley's blog
Here are a couple of samples:
‘Uncle John’ celebrates 25 years of China friendship
[Story and photos by Mike Foley, originally published in the PCC Imua Polenesia newsletter, June 2007] John Muaina (fourth from left, back row), his wife Luella, Carolyn and Eric Shumway and Napua Baker (right, back row) meet with AEM alumni in Xi’an, China Polynesian Cultural Center Vice President of Human Resources John Muaina recently represented the […]
Samoa factoids: Did you know?
In the wake of news from the September 29, 2009, earthquake and tsunami damage in Samoa, I was recently reading some Samoa history, and the following few factoids caught my interest enough to share them:
‘Do you paint your head?’
Ya gotta’ love Samoan semantics: Not too long ago a Samoan friend asked me, ua vali ea lou ulu? which more literally translated means, “do you paint your head?” The Samoan word, vali, however, can also mean makeup or dye — as in hair dye — so in a kinda’ Samoan way she was really […]
More “poor man’s cruise”
[Blog entry and video by Mike Foley: Originally published June 30, 2009] An earlier blog entry “inspired” me to dig out my old Hi-8 video tapes and put together a little web video of our Alaskan adventure in June 2001. After a lifetime of still photography, I was just starting to get into video at this […]