Ah Siu Reunion Samoa 2024

 

It's all on! Getting ready for our Ah Siu Reunion, representing the Aialaisa clan (my paternal great grandfather) with bright oranges, although burnt orange was chosen by my cousin as she was quick off the mark. My choice would have been blues.

So next week, from 19 - 22 December, we're all converging in Upolu island in Samoa for a 4-day weekend celebration and getting to know each other with people flying in from the USA, American Samoa, Australia, New Zealand (I'm not sure of Hawaii?).

There are five fale tama (houses of children) or clans that my great, great grandparents, Shing Ah Siu (China) & Asia Fasavalu (Matautu, Falelatai), had with their eldest son Aialaisa being the branch that I come from.

My grandmother was his eldest and was named after her paternal grandmother and my progenitors. My father was my grandmother's eldest. So a small group from Auckland, New Zealand, will represent our family there. I'm so looking forward to it.

It will be interesting as this is our second Ah Siu Family reunion, with the first celebrated in Auckland in 2018, close to a year after my grandma Asia died. Her wish was for our families to fealofi or care/love one another.

So our family will be decked out in oranges (all shades as you can see in the pic) with complementing orange hat, orange ribbons, string and the list goes on. We're anticipating to have a lot of family members there with clan colours of: blue, green, red and purple.

Now starting to pack as there's so much to consider taking with the reunion starting next week on the Thursday on the 19th December which is a week from now. I've decided to even take a mini Christmas tree as we will be spending Christmas and New Year's day there. Roll on the weekend...