Tualemoso- My Aunties and Uncles..and My dad in the LBC!

My Grandparents: 
Father - Pine Tualemoso Ma'o, Faleasao & Sili, Manu'a  "Pine" pronounced Ping-ay
Mother - Fa'atafeapeauolesami Seupule, Faleasao, Manu'a   "Fa'atafea"
My Aunties: Te'evale Ali'ipule (deceased), Katerina Ah-Soon (deceased), Ana Yandall (deceased), Fualaau Gaoteote (Vatia, AS), Kolini Veniale (San Francisco, CA), Siniue Pine-Auelua (deceased)


My uncles and my dad: 
Fa'alua Tualemoso Pine (deceased), Pine Tualemoso Pine Jr. (deceased), Titipa Tualemoso Pine (Long Beach, CA). 
This image along with the family names were found at:  In Memory of Siniue-Pineauelua Siniue was the sister of my father Titipa Tualemoso Pine.  My mom says she has some pictures of the sisters when they were in California when we were younger.  Judging by this background, I'd say this image was most likely taken in Samoa. 

Volunteer Teacher/Blogger of Faleasao

AmSamAdventure.blogspot.com

It was the coolest yet strangest twisted thing.  Here I am, surfing the web and gathering information in preparation for another visit to Faleasao, and I find a young woman, who's blogging about teaching in Faleasao and has a post about this very nice woman, Leafa, and how she got to attend a one year reunion of the funeral of her father.  Strangely, it sounds all to familiar...and here's one of the pictures posted on her blog...The fathers name....Tualemoso, well Ahsoon and Tualemoso.  I'm still learning about the namesake stuff. Her blog is interesting, some of it I expected, some of it I didn't.  This picture definitely falls under the "some of it I didn't" part.

Cousins, Keith, Sky, Stallone, Natalie, Leafa and others....Clearly loyal family members. My Cousin Usu is their mother, Tualemoso, their grandfather and her father.  Her father, actually has no blood relation to me, however, his wife, Katerina, Usu's mother, was my fathers sister. Katerina and Tualemoso raised my father, and many other of my cousins, first, second and third.  I believe, he was an honorable and noble Samoan and accepted the family name of my Auntie Katerina.  Tualemoso, as a leader and "talking chief" for the family.  ??? I do need more clarification on these matters...I am learning as I go and of course welcome advice and corrections and clarification. 

What some think about Samoan Agriculture

Discussion on the topic of Agriculture

I only know that I have a cousin who has a plantation on Ta'u that is setting an amazing example of what is possible.

UNSPOILED

A fresh idea that keeps tugging at me over time has started buldozing me over.  I surrender, and commit to taking it the distance. ....So, I'm in the gathering stage....still, only now more aggresively and with the notion that others will want to be involved.  The main ideas are primarily...Preservation through Education, Technology and Agriculture. There are similar organizations in Hawaii...focusmauinui.com, for example.  So let the gathering begin!