Over 200 teachers assisted during the semester break, while women, including Sina Tuuu Schwenke, practiced traditional dances daily, excitedly anticipating the chance to meet the monarch.
Tofaeono Kitiona Tofaeono, Siumu village representative, said they planned to bestow a paramount chief title of Toa'iga o Tumua to the king, and hoped he would accept it. The title, the traditional name for the meeting ground for Siumu's chiefs, holds great importance to the village.