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Season's Greeting from a Heating Island
-Start off Volunteer Activities in Tonga-

Aquibow landed Tonga the end of September and has started working at TV Tonga after a canned month of Tongan lesson.

New fellow staff for producing programs are about 30, newsreporters, cameramen and editors out of 70 workers. Conversations in the workplaces are mainly in Tongan. So Aquibow is hussling to make sure the important informations using English everyday.

TV Tonga is a national TV station. However there is no money from the bugget of the Kingdom. The station earnes money from those who appear on the programs, CM, lease fee of wave to China and so. With less money, less equipments and less personells, how he could transfer his much skills of production.

Citizens at a park of Market, the most busy area in downtown

Many tongans wear traditional Ta'ovara in ordinary life. It is a straw coat tied with a rope around their waists. Ta'ovara expresses respect to other poeple.

Many tracks have their passengers on the rear box. It looks so dangerous. I wish Tangon people shift their lifestyle from easy-going to safty-controlled, a tention-needed society for their quality-of-life.

Ferry presented by Japan October 2010. It takes 15 hours between Nukualofa and Vavau. Her first voyage was welcomed by many islanders in Vavau.

Enjoy the Sounds of 1960's TV

The "60sTV" page displays many audio files nice to monitor.

Aquibow is in a process to translate the Japanese titles into English. The most difficult is the titles. If it names about tree, he must be serious about their numbers, single or plural. Japanese titles are so complicated and obsecure in meanings. Compared with them the titles of the programs from the US are so simple and easy to translate.

In 1960s the aged people were so amased the US acters and actresses how fluently they spoke Japanese. You can enjoy how TV stations in Japan modified the US programs for their viewers.

Editor is uploading the files now that were deleted by the server company from miscommucination. Since the internet situation is not good enough in Tonga, Aquibow expresses great thanks for your patiences.