The graduating students this year started a new tradition. They scheduled one night for all the students to invite all the faculty and outgoing staff to a big dinner. They killed, plucked, cut up and mumued (cooked over hot stones) over 100 chickens along with sausages, kaukau (sweet potatoes), cooking bananas and ferns with other greens. Too, they brought rice while faculty members brought cakes. There was so much food that it was brought in in wheelbarrows. Then the tablecloths were spread with banana leaves and the cooked food placed on the leaves.
The students also prepared flower arrangements that they placed in vases made from banana tree trunks. They involved their children in stringing a live flower necklace for each honored guest. They came up with so many tablecloths that we were amazed. They arranged for music to be played, and one student sang a song he wrote in praise of God. It was an enjoyable time to fellowship with students, their spouses and their children around the tables at the end of the year. We appreciated the efforts that were evident in that memorable evening.
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