Last week our friend Alicia won the vote to choose our song for Praktikan Pupuengi, and she chose this one from the Guam Sirenas. It is so fun, cute and high-energy, with the singer is declaring who she is choosing to be her sweetheart (and she makes it very clear that she did have options!). The quick, clipped pace of this song, combined with some challenging sound quality, meant this one took longer than usual for our group to transcribe. There was even one little phrase that gave us trouble, and we’re still not 100% certain we got it right. But we made it through, and honestly, we had such a great time along the way.

As always, this post includes Chamorro lyrics and an English translation for Suetti Hao by the Guam Sirenas. Happy listening!

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This past weekend, our Saturday evening practice group got to look at our refreshed song list for 2024. I voted for this one and everyone was down to transcribe it! Also, a reader had requested this song a few weeks back when we were refreshing our song list for the praktika, so it was perfect timing. Here are Chamorro lyrics and an English translation for Tuhu I Lago’-hu by the Guam Sirenas. Happy listening!

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