Happy Birthday to President Monson from Moroni High School Students
Students at Moroni High School sang happy birthday to President Monson at an assembly honoring our prophet. In Kiribati each stanza of happy birthday is followed by three quick claps of the hands. Then they sing "Happy long life" followed with three claps after each stanza. The final verse is again "Happy Birthday sung in the I-Kiribati language.
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| Some students and Nadi pose in front of a poster wishing President Monson a Happy Birthday.A special assembly was held at Moroni High School to honor President Thomas S. Monson on his 85th birthday as part of the World Wide Celebration on November 17th. Except the in the Pacific the 17th is a day earlier than in the U.S.A. |
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Kite Flying Taiwanese Style
On Thursday a group of Taiwanese put on a very impressive kite flying demonstration for the students at Moroni High School. They began by launching a large traditional looking kite which was connected to some smaller kites held together an equal distance apart by some strong string (nylon rope). Each kite with the Taiwanese woman's face also had a small propeller like attachment which kept each kite vertical. A kite in the shape of a shark was also flown very high to help lift the other kites which were all tied together by very strong cordage. There was also a kite which was the flag of Kiribati, which they attempted to fly but the wind was not strong enough.
The most popular kite for the students was a model of "sponge bob" hanging on the kite string. Sponge Bob was filled with candy, when a string was pulled when it was about 30 feet off the ground, candy was dumped to the students standing below. Each piece of candy had a small parachute, the students jumped and dove for a piece of candy. The sponge bob dump was repeated three different times to the delight of students old and young.
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| The dark shape on top is a shark kite followed by a red sea horse, then by a string of kites with the same face of a Taiwanese lady |
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| Happy Jelly Fish flying high |
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| Next they tied this large octopus onto the other kites and with some effort and difficulty it finally lifted off the ground. |
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| Students love to pose for pictures in front of the octopus kite |
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| A good view of the faces on the kites which were used to lift the larger kites. Attempts to get this kite of a sea horse launched were unsuccessful. There was also a series of small kites with a picture of a panda bear on each. But the wind did not cooperate and with the limited space on the soccer field, they didn't attempt to fly the panda bears. |
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| Flying Sea Horse gets off the ground |
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| The sun shined through the sharks eyes and teeth making another spectacular sight |
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| There was even a kite of the Kiribati Flag |
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| Sponge Bob (full of candy) hanging onto the kite string was a big hit with the students especially when the candy was released. |
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A Happy Kite for happy students at Moroni High School.
Many visitors to the school call it the "Smiley School" or the "Happy School" because so many students are smiling showing their beautiful white teeth |
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| Good photo of the very large Sea Horse |
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Do you have a feeling someone is looking over your shoulder
This young Taiwanese man uses a large reel to control the kites |
It was a fun afternoon, it kind of reminded you of the Macy's Day Thanksgiving parade, except these were kites not helium filled balloons. On Saturday the Taiwanese took the kites to the Kiribati Parliament Building for the start of this session of parliament.
Moroni High School is next to the main road across Tarawa, so hundreds of cars and taxi's slowed down to view the kites. Nearly every primary age child in the area also came to watch the kites fly.
In spite of the limited wind conditions, it was very impressive to see how they got the kites in the air and used other kites to lift the larger ones.
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