The Ocean Stories: Recent Episodes
Naivalu Sai
Pacific Islanders love stories. We connect and relate through stories. Even our chants, songs and dances are all forms of story telling. This podcast perpetuates that notion with the hope that we may learn a lesson or two from our fellow Ocean people.
Mere is now enjoying retirement, has home in Fiji and in Washington, chats about growing up in Fiji, her professional journey and her passion of helping her people back at home.
https://www.facebook.com/mere.naico
Thelma shares her childhood memories, her love for teaching, raising her family and now enjoying her grand kids. And her family's legacy with regard to the Polynesian Cultural Center and the now famous "Bula Laie" song.
https://www.facebook.com/thelma.racule
Lorrine advocates making small changes, starting healthy habits and overcoming barriers. Time is precious. Through her own trials, she wants to help people "as a whole and not as a piece of the puzzle."
https://www.facebook.com/lorrine.headrick
https://www.instagram.com/lifefit_lorrine/
Ruth Kongaika kept a journal of her travel and living experiences in Hawaii, Tonga and Utah. Her posterity and others are now benefiting from her stories.
https://www.facebook.com/ruth.kongaika
https://medium.com/@ruthkongaika/my-amazing-life-as-a-travel-writer-e1754252af5e
It was a delight talking to Albert with regard to his passion and project in sharing his Fijian tradition in New Zealand.
Good luck my friend
https://www.facebook.com/albert.traill.9
Our chat about her parents, growing up in Hawaii, kids cultural identity moving to the mainland and her vision of moving back to Fiji.
Enjoy!