The PIBC Guam graduation festivities began on Friday night with the student sponsored banquet for the graduates. The lower classmen plan, serve and provide the entertainment for the banquet. The staff and faculty also provide some of the food. There are always lots of songs, skits and other entertainment. This year the Yapese (with a few Palauans and Chuukese helping as "honorary Yapese") student group performed a traditional stick dance. Traditionally these dances remember past battles or come out of pre-Christian beliefs, but the PIBC students are trying to redeem this cultural practice. The dance they invented commemorated the entrance of the Gospel to Yap. I am hoping they will do more of this in the future. The Chuukese guys did a Chuukese stick dance and there was some good Chuukese singing too. More latter on the baccalaureate service and the graduation ceremony.
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That looks like so much fun. Can't wait to get back over there.
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