Lining Up

An interesting piece of this part of training has been that the days in which we are all in school together (Wednesdays), we are required to line up in a boys and girls line before class begins so that our instructors can inspect our appearance. Sort of an elementary principle when working with adults, but that's what they chose to do. They never gave us a list or told us exactly what their expectations were for this graded portion of training until they started letting people know during our first line up session (and in front of everyone else) who was not dressed appropriately. Apparently, students are required to wear a tauvala (or for women, a kiekie) ... I guess we were just supposed to know this on our own? And, you can see we're such an unruly group that a bull horn was required to speak to the 16 of us during this process.