SAMOA (Pronounced "SAM WA") Located in the French Polynesian Triangle, drawn by connecting the points of Hawaii, New Zealand and Easter Island, the other islands are Samoa, Tonga, the Cook Islands, Tuvalu, Tokelau, Niue, Wallis and Futuna and French Polynesia. There's a quick geography lesson for you! In 1962 Samoa was the first Polynesian island to reestablish its independence as Western Samoa. In 1997 it dropped the Western and now is just Samoa, not to be confused with American Samoa. With the motto "Samoa was founded on God", the three very strong tenants in this otherwise quiet tropical island are: Devotion to the Mati (C hiefs) of the villages, F amily and various forms of the Christian religion . Small 10 house villages would have two maybe three good sized churches. The Mormons and Seventh Day Adventist churches were prolific. It was frowned upon to wear a bathing suit on Sundays and one small resort asked that you not swim in the ocean on Sunday....