Life in the islands- Tonga: Introducing Me

Friday, September 24, 2010

Introducing Me

Hi! My name is Tevita, I am from the islands of Tonga which is why I chose to make my Blog about the islands. I grew up in a village called Vaini, the best village in Tonga haha. we are known as the Vaini Doves because of our rugby team.

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tinniSeptember 24, 2010 at 7:39 PM
hi nice to meet you Tevita welcome to the world of blogging:) 09o b bvcfj99i;i9ukkyihu8ui';.'p'pfr5666666666666f6576t5fcf yfdxdfc

ok thank you... that was my 4 month old son trying to type :)
love your lay out :)
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Wiki Tonga

Tonga (pronounced [ˈtoŋa]) - officially the Kingdom of Tonga (Tongan: Puleʻanga Fakatuʻi ʻo Tonga) - an archipelago in the South Pacific Ocean, comprises 169 islands, 36 of them inhabited.[4] The Kingdom stretches over a distance of about 800 kilometres (500 miles) in a north-south line located at about a third of the distance from New Zealand to Hawaiʻi.
Tonga also became known as the Friendly Islands because of the friendly reception accorded to Captain James Cook on his first visit there in 1773. He happened to arrive at the time of the ʻinasi festival, the yearly donation of the first fruits to the Tuʻi Tonga, the islands' paramount chief, and received an invitation to the festivities. According to the writer William Mariner, in reality the chiefs had wanted to kill Cook during the gathering, but could not agree on a plan.[5]
Apart from being the only sovereign monarchy among the island nations of the Pacific Ocean, Tonga is also the only island nation in the region to have avoided formal colonisation.[6] Tonga plans to become a fully functioning constitutional monarchy after legislative reforms and a more fully representative election, scheduled to take place in 2010.