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The Tonga High School Ex-Students Web Site(THSESWS) was created by Loseli Ma'ukie Hafoka as a result of continual requests by many Tonga High School Ex-students to have a page dedicated to Tonga High School. This is the official site for Tonga High School Ex-Students and issues related to all chapters in Tonga and abroad. The site is hosted in Melbourne, Australia but the headquarters for the Tonga High School Ex-students is based in Nuku'alofa, Tonga. It must be noted that Tonga High School(the current administration and the school as a whole) reserves the right to publish the official web site for the school. This site is a gathering place for all Tonga High School Ex-Students irrespective of any corner of the globe they may happen to be. The webmaster has no intention of interfering with what Tonga High School authorities want to publish. However, the webmaster reserves the copyright for all materials published here. The logo for this site is based on the Tonga High School logo to show our close affiliation with our beloved school.As a response to the requests from ex-students here in Australia and the U.S.A, it was decided that Tonga High School needed its place on the internet by making its presence felt. It became clear that so many of our ex-students are using the internet on a daily basis. It is this very reason why I and so many others decided it's time we had a page dedicated to Tonga High School.
A lot of work has been put into creating this site and the sole purpose is to gather all ex-students and current students of Tonga High School and its other campuses to meet here and share information.The "Lalo Kasia Forum" is already up and running and many of the ex-students are already using it to discuss and share current issues relating to Tonga High School. This forum is also very useful in gathering information for our web site. The "Paini Mutu Chat Room" has also been implemented and all are welcome to enter and chat to each other from where-ever you are and whenever you feel like chatting. The compilation of the email database is also going very well and the webmaster is very thankful for all the responses, co-operation and help from everyone in creating our email database. Thank you ALL!
This site is doing a lot of pioneering work in collating school information. In fact, this site is probably the leader in covering matters relating to any school in The Kingdom of Tonga, a feat that we are so proud of! I have received so many constructive and positive feedbacks from all over the world commending and congratulating the work that we have done to our site. Mind you, half of the comments came from non ex-students and foreigners.
One of our long-term plans is to have a "joint venture" with Tonga High School administration in order to provide courses online for our current students and others by using our ex-students as online tutors. We have experts in any field of study and it is only a matter of bringing them together to provide this new venture. It will take a lot of work to co-ordinate, manage, implement and maintain this online service but it is not beyond our means. New challenges bring out the best in us. While there is life, there is hope!
The webmaster decided to use the colours of the school in the design of this web site. Being a co-educational school,the boys used to wear grey shorts and shirts with brown sandals and brown belts. More recently, boys wear grey 'tupenu' and a ta'ovala instead of shorts. For the girls,they wear maroon blouses with white shirts and a yellow ribbon. Brown sandals are also part of girls' uniform. Please note that the colours of the girls' uniform dominate our site. This has been deliberately done to show respect to all our fellow sisters,girlfriends and wives who have studied at Tonga High School and to show the world that Tongans highly repect their female counterparts. Culturally, our women have a very high status in our society. It is therefore our duty to keep it that way!
IMPORTANT NOTICE REGARDING BEST VIEWING:
To fully appreciate the use of on this site, you must use NETSCAPE 4.X/Internet Explorer 4.X or higher. This site was designed specifically for the Netscape Browser but Internet Explorer can be used as well and it enables you to hear the background music(Tongan National Anthem)!
(1). Download Communicator by visiting the Netscape site. Enjoy Viewing !.
(2).Set your computer resolution to pixels(Standard Resolution) for best viewing.
Download Loseli's Resolution Program and use it if you have trouble changing your computer resolution .
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