Canoes, Paddles, and MLI Students! Oh my!

Alo-o-o-oha! We just got back from another one of our field trips! We headed down to the beach on Friday for some canoe paddling and a little fun in the sun. For many of us, this was the first time experiencing the thrill of paddling on the open sea.

After a brief lesson on the basics of canoe paddling, we jumped right in and went for it. You could feel the anticipation build as we entered the water to begin our adventure. We quickly got into the rhythm of paddling in unison, which allowed us to glide smoothly over the gentle currents. We even caught a few waves and rode them back to shore. And of course, the day wouldn't be complete without a little competition. We got to show-off all of our newly-learned canoe paddling skills by having a little race. We had choke fun! What does "choke" mean you ask? Lets find out with this blog's Pidgin lesson.

Choke - A large quantity of something, many, lots, copious
Ex.
1. Had choke guys at the party? - Yea, had choke!
Were there a lot of people at the party? - Yes, there were a lot of people there!
2. Get choke food ah!
Wow! There is so much food here!

If you have kept up with all of our past Pidgin English lessons, you now have quite a good arsenal of words under your belt. I will conclude this blog by writing my last paragraph completely in Pidgin. There will be words you already know, as well as some that you might have not heard before. Try to see if you can figure out the meaning of those words on your own. If you are able to understand what I write here, give yourself a pat on the back! I think you'll find that you can probably understand a lot!

Ho, we had choke fun going canoe paddling! I like go again! Bra, gaurans I going go again this weekend. Oh yea, this week is the last week of da session fo our MLI students! Den they get one week off from school! Ho, some lucky ah dem! We going have one pot-luck party this week so we can end dis session wit one bang! Every time we get one pot-luck party, get choke ono grinds! I no can wait for eat um all! No worries, I going take choke pictures and put um on top this blog. So you can check um out and drool over all the ono grinds we going get! K, dat's all fo now! Shoots!