Pese is in full swing

On my way back from High Court this morning, after arguing an interesting case, I was greeted with quite a set of sights and sounds in the atrium to the Executive Office Building. One of the government departments was in full rehearsal mode doing choir practice. It made for a livelier walk than usual back up to the office.

With the first night of pese scheduled to start tonight the American Samoa Government departments are doubling up on their practice time. This whole week there has been music echoing through the office building as well as long practices for our office every afternoon. Even at Court this morning the witnesses I had were bragging about last years' performances and talking up their shows for this year. Should be quite a festival over the next three evenings.

Sara and I were among the members of our office to help pick out the pese uniforms for the Department of Legal Affairs. This meant that we got to go to the fabric store pick the fabric that all the members of the Department would use to make their uniforms and then had sample designs knocked up by one of the local sewing shops for the men's and women's uniforms to show the rest of the office how to have their's made. It was classic group decision making, with several opinions pulling the print and design their own direction, but we were happy with the end product and are looking forward to seeing it on display at our televised performance on Friday.