Miss M's current obsession is hula - I have some kahiko (ancient chant style) big time competitions that I ordered online and she's been asking to watch those. Her newest thing is that, as she dances (with a few ballet moves mixed in), she chants, like the dancers she sees on the DVD. She stops mid-dance, holds her arms out, and yells out gibberish. In the real dances, they introduce and end dances with a Hawaiian phrase - I know they end with a line that starts, "He inoa . . ." and it says the name of the dance they just did (but that's all I know!) And now she wants me to be the kumu hula, the hula teacher who sits on the stage and beats the ipu. I have nothing gourd-shaped, so we're using a flashlight.
Can you see the resemblance? No? Well, I guess you have to really stretch the imagination . . .
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