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Independence week

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 It's independence week again.  Actually, it's a two week celebration.  Keith and I went to the fishing competition again.  Loved it.  We also attended the MHS Cultural Day.   The fishing boats lined up for the competition - beautiful  The winner was 61.5 lb yellow fin tuna  There's a beauty contest  and the winner is chosen for Miss Kiribati. She serves for a year Former President of the country of Nauru, Marcus Stephen.  We will be going there in about 6 weeks.  Sashimi - raw fish served in a soy/pepper sauce.  The people call this Disneyland. It's part of the Independence Celebration  One of the rides at "Disneyland"  Students dancing for Cultural Day  This is a typical drum used in their traditional dancing Part of the dancing is someone  who sprays perfume on all the dancers. The perfume is really strong.  We took a couple of trips to North Tarawa.  The first one we walked with other seni...