This is the best week-end and a very special time and moments of life honoring the woman who carry me for nine months, bringing me into this world, nurtured and raised me to be the person who I am today. My mother can be best described as the woman in the Holy Bible from the book of Proverbs 31: 10-31. This passage defines my mother's personality and her true identity that no other woman can be compared because I believe each woman in this world is unique in their own personality. May this p

Our Samoan culture is very unique in its own way. We are taught by our parents to live life with values and biblical principles. We were raised to learn how to live life to its fullest with what we have in our hands not to be depended on others. We are taught to take our culture with us preserving our Samoan language and way of living. I remembered my grandfather telling us the grandchildren that "Our Culture is our gift from God". As I was growing up these words echos to me as a reminder t