Georgia Hmong New Year 2008-2009
Posted on 10 November 2008
The Georgia New Year was this past weekend, and once again, it was another long tiring yet fun weekend. It seems like this year the New Year has gotten bigger, more people attending and more venders, the only thing that has not yet changed is the amount of people who dresses up. I’m proud of myself for dressing up for at least 5 hours on Saturday but by Sunday I was back in my regular clothes.
There were a lot of different type of entertainment coming from different states such as North Carolina, South Carolina, even Florida and of course Georgia; I believe we even had a performance coming from Arkansas too. My little cousins also dances this year although my sister had dropped out this year, she’ll be back to dance with my cousins again next year. One of the best entertainment I saw besides m y little cousin’s dances was a imitation skit from a Hmong movie, were a fan posed himself as Tong, a favorite Hmong character from a movie, he did such a great job at it that it was very convincing that it was him.
The food was great. One of my favorite things about the Hmong New Year is the great foods that are sold at the booths. There are choices such as purple sticky rice with Hmong sausage, Purple sticky rice with chicken leg/whole chicken (small chicken), purple sticky rice with pork, purple sticky rice with American sausage, papaya salad, navah, and many other great choices. I always look forward to the yummy food every year. It just never gets old. And the pepper severed at the New Year is all so good.
The dances and performance will be posted once I get them uploaded on youtube. I’ve been having a hard time uploading on youtube. But for now enjoy the photos.
Here is the Tong imitation. He did such a great job at it that it was even convincing and very entertaining. Tong is a very funny character in all the films he was casted in.
Baby Savier giving Tong money.
baby Savier being Shy.
Even baby Savier is all dressed up in HMONG.
My favorite little girl. She did such a great job on stage with her dance. And shes only 6. By the way, never argue with this little girl, she knows her facts. ahahaa
caught them right after their dance performance. Lulu and Ceilia are adorable.
Mab Sua Lis, a Hmong singer from Laos, now married and reside in MN.
The soccer field.
My uncle from MN’s booth
17 responses to Georgia Hmong New Year 2008-2009
hello there,
this pass weekend was also stockton new year in Cali too and i just thought it was cool how two similar things are happening at once but all the way across the country…
Lol.
I was there too.
I think it’s pretty big for a GA New Year because SC wasn’t this big.
wow!!!
it’s amazing that there’s many many
hmong ppl down there in GA!!!
i love to see my hmong ppl from
around everywhere celebrate how we do it
here in MN!!! thats kinda PIMP!!!!
wow!!!
it’s amazing that there’s many many
hmong ppl down there in GA!!!
i love to see my hmong ppl from
around everywhere celebrate how we do it
here in MN!!! thats kinda PIMP!!!!
I love the photos, especially the Hmong outfits, and great shots of the girls btw.
I saw several nice pieces in Luang Prabang, the blankets are especially beautiful but it was too expensive for me, so I got bags instead.
yea fl new year
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OMG!, npawg tooj was there?
He is one of my favorite actor.
I always want to meet him in person.
You so lucky Ze that you get to see him before me.
Did you took more picture of npaw tooj than
what you have here?
hehe he got me there to believe that he is my real npaw tooj.
why Ze? hehe you dont have to excited me like that with a fake npawg tooj.. lol
Hay!
Im from ga
and im hmong!!
Hmong new year
yah!
i cant wait untill hmong new year in ga!!!!
Go hmong New year!!!
Woooh!
mozemoua i live in jefferson
r u boy or gurl
what age
where u live and
wat up!!
Lucy, I hope you had a good time this year, check out my two most recent blogs, they featured this years event!
Oh and I am a female, I am sure you saw me walking around with my camera and my camera bag, i was all over the New Year. I live in Barrow county, you know where all most of the Hmogn people lives! LOL Not too far from Jefferson.
TOng.. LOL no it wasn’t him. It was just a imitation of him. LOL He did a great job and very convincing too! I actually have a video of this guy singing, but he pose as himself in the video it was done right after he did this imitation.
Here is the Vid of him singing. Very talented fellow I tell ya!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qVmmJIGEaw&feature=channel_page]
Lucy, hello! Where in GA are you from? HOpe to see you at this years New Year, the flyers are up on my page as well. it’s one of mor recent post.