A ga a'o a'i gi maile o sili (Would have been better to teach dogs)
I was speaking to a couple of friends after a church activity on Saturday. One has Filipina heritage and the other Korean. They both will be visiting their homelands at the end of the year and were both voicing their frustrations about their quests to lose weight. Their reason for doing this now was the same "because people back home are blunt and will tell you as a greeting that you're so fat!" I giggled as I listened reflecting on how Samoans are exactly the same. And relatives of any generation will embrace you on arrival regardless of whether or not they've met you before and say as loudly as possibly "Oh my! How fat you are (perhaps distant cousins of the big bad wolf... hehehe!) :) As a young girl just entering puberty I was horrified when one of my aunts almost suffocated me as she hugged me and went on and on about how HUGE I was and oh your legs and cheeks and arms were all so chubby. Mind you - this is when I was 17 and a size 12 Australian. My p...