The day my parents arrived my school offered them a feast. My parents weren’t hungry, but I explained that is how Tongans do things and this is how they welcome people so even if they didn’t eat a whole lot, we needed to go. Well they definitely wanted to go so we set out. On the way we saw Sione, the town officer, driving by. He stopped and I introduced everyone. Then he said he wanted us to go to his house and see how Tongans eat, with their hands! Of course he meant to feed us. I got that and to be respectful of our upcoming feast he only gave us appetizers. Now when my parents saw that we each got a plate with a piece of fried chicken, a small bowl of lu and three pieces of yam they knew it was a full meal. It wasn’t until the feast at the school that they realized that plate of food really was an appetizer.