Sunday, October 19, 2008
One more week!
What's wrong with you people? No comments not even on my pictures. Come on now I know you got something to say. Well, I just have one more week til Chris comes! I can't wait I am going through all kinds of emotions. I do feel like my world will finally be complete after 5 months of it being a mess. My birthday is coming up too but that takes the back burning to Chris's arrival. I don't even care that I am turning 24 years old. Thank god cause if I did care I would probably be freakin out that I am turning that old. I am in town right now and coming from a soccer tournament this weekend. i scored a goal so now I am like a superstar or something. It was of course raining the whole game which you all know how I love playing soccer in the rain. I have some of my best games in the rain. It was the last game of the tournament and we had to win. I scored on the second half. For some reason the coach put me as Captain and so I called for ball and wanted the muddy side cause I thought is was more fun to play in the mud. One of the girls dribbled the ball down the line on the left side and crossed it over I was playing central midfield again which for sure suck at so I don't know why the coach put me there either. But one girl went to kick the crossed ball in the goal and I though for sure she was going to get it in but she missed and slipped in the mud and I was standing right there so I moved to get my head on it but I coudn't get under the ball so I hit it with my neck and it went in but I landed in the biggest mud puttle in Fiji. I was so dirty! The crown cheered and the team just laughed. I had so much fun. I think that the team is really getting used of me and I am starting to play and act like I usually do. So it feels good to be apart of that. Well, I need to get going. Dad I got your package in the mail and Aunt Beckie's but I haven't opened them up just yet. I like to wait til I get to my tin shack in the village it feels more like Christmas and all the kids are watching me and taking all the candy and stuff from America. I love you all and next time I post Chris will for sure be here! Love you Mom and Dad I espesially miss alot of people today! Thinkin of you all.
Monday, October 13, 2008
13 more days til Chris arrives!!!!
Okay, first of all I am sorry I haven't been on top of my blog lately. I have been moving around alot lately and haven't really had a regular steady schedule. But I have two weeks in my village before Chris comes where I can come into town and update my blog. I have put up 137 more pictures in my picture album so please check them out they are pretty good if I don't say so myself. So since the last time I put up a post. We had out beach weekend that I planned with the Viti levu volunteers. it was fun but it freakin rained the whole time. I got to kayack for the first time and I have not good at it. The place we stayed at called the Beach house is a really cool place and we met alot of cool people our age just traveling the world. I stopped in Lautoka before i got to the resort and did some work for my village. I am tryin to get the youth re-registered so they can recieve money for projects. But its easier said then done. I have to type up a constitution and do all this paper work which isn't a big deal if it didnt' take forever to get to town and then once I get to town I have to pay for the time I use the computer. But I will work on that. It has been nice after my site visit I can start doing to some work around here. I don't feel like such a failure. I also picked up some recycling bags to start my village on recycling which should be an interesting task but I think it is going to work. My host village Draubuta is still recycling after we introduced the idea to them and they are loving it.
I also have been to the movie theaters twice since i put up a post. I saw tropical thunder and pinapple express. It was great I felt like I was right there in America. Til I walked outside and realized I sure as hell wasn't. But it was nice to sit down and listen to humor and good english that I understand and genuily laughed at. When I came back from the beach weekend I was so excited to come back to my village. I realy missed alot of people in my village. Especially Sophia! When I got back I saw the AOG preacher's wife one of my favorite people in the village. I think I have talked about her before. But she wasn't looking good. She had these huge black sunglasses on. I asked her what was wrong she said that there was a problem at home and she got injured. She turned a little bit and I could see the outline of this huge black bruise around her eye and she was just coming back from the hospital. I mean I have never seen a black eye like this before. And right there I knew that the paster hit her. I felt so sick to my stomach. Just when I thought I found the perfect couple in Fiji to look up to it was crashed. I had no idea what to do. I wanted to cook her a dish and bring it over to her house but I was scared of her husband. And him and I were good friends. On the bus I kept thinking how embrassed she must feel wearing those glasses and hiding her face and knowing damn well that everyone knows what happen no matter how many times she lies for her husband. I can't stand how everyone just accepted it and didn't seem to care and that this stuff just kind of happens and it's their problem in the marriage and that we should interfear. But I couldn't stand the fact that he hit her I let people know. I told kelera and she was telling me all the stories that happened to her that her ex-husband did. I think the AOG pastor knows how I feel because I am sure people have told him and the fact that I will leave a place if he is around and I never say hi to him. So we will see what will come of that. Aparantly, he has apologized to the church and all that bullshit makes it okay but not for me. I will never accept that!
So I don't know if I have mentioned but Kendall's boyfriend is coming the same time Chris is coming. On the same plane! We are going to have so much fun I can't wait.
Anyways, my village has had two soli's (fundraisers). the first one for education and schooling for the kids and the second on Fiji Day for the Methodist church which I completely disagree on. Because these people give ALL there money to the church and don't save some for themselves and don't have food to feed themselves and are living in tin shacks. because the Methodist church says if you give lots of money that Jesus will take care of the rest but in reality these people are still hungry and still have not electricity and are living in tin shacks. I can't imagine if they gave all that money for the electricity. I mean they give thousands of dollars and I still have no clue where this money come froms. these people of no jobs. I can't understand that just yet.
During the soli the women of course did all the cooking and I even stayed up til 1 in the morning peeling potatoes and then got up at 6 in the morning to present a sevusevu i think that is in my pictures. I asked one of the guys how he felt about all these women twice his age doing all this work and all he does is sit around. He said well that is a woman's job and you all know me I blew up on him. So i think the next soli I am going to strongly suggest them to switch things up and have the men do all the work and the women sit around. kelera said they did that one year and it worked. So I want to see it myself.
People in my village are starting to mistake me as an Indian because I am starting to get quite dark in this hot Fijian sun. Which is a complement in my book but not relaly good to be mistaken as an Indian in a Fijian village.
we had a soccer game a few weekends ago in tavua and it was awesome. i felt like I was in high school again. I am playing my usual position as right full back and it feels real good! We won our first game and tied our second against Nadi. We always lose against them and that game was like playing against PHS. that is how crazy the crowd was and how excited we were to beat them. I saved alot of goals and almost got into a fight. So it felt just like home for me. It was great!
We had our in-service training at a resort and I got to meet and see all the volunteers in Fiji. I was relaly nice and refreshing to see everyone again. But sucked to know that I won't see them all again for another year. But I got to lay out at the pool and get alot of information about projects I can do and went out with all my friends. So it was a good time.
After the trainging I went to my friends Sarah's house is Navua on the other side of the island and went to this resort called the Uprising. you will see pictures of it in my album. this place was amazing. I wanted to stay for weeks. I never wanted to leave. I have never seen a place like this before. I would love to take chris here but the bus ride would not be worth it because of time. But maybe if other people visit i can plan better and get there Oh yeah I know why We can't go there no one I know could ever afford it. I keep forgetting about stuff like that.
So my village has big big plans for Chris's arrival. the women are preparing a huge dinner thursday night when he gets there. And there are a few more surprises but I don't want to say because I want chris to be surprised. let's just say I almost cried when they told me what they are going to do. I told them they didn't have to do all of this but they said that he is coming all the way from America to visit you and the village and you are now apart of the village and the family here. It is a part of their culture to do this. So I can't wait I will talk alot of pictures trust me!
So lately all I have been doing is washing my clothes and cleaning the house. and working on my community map where I draw up the house and surrounding areas of my village which is considably easy since my village is bearly 40 houses.
One tuesday I went to the headman 's village house to cut weeds in their kasava fields. It was one of the hardest jobs ever. My back was killing me. I was trying to be like a fijian woman and lets face I am not but at least I tried right? After a while it started raining and all the women told me to go back to the house and help cook cause they thought I was going to get really sick. So I went back and cooked and ate the best meal ever. It was so good. they prepared a special plate for me which is a big honor even so that they are still doing that after all this time I have been in the village. I think they did it because I did some manual labor for them. Anyways, the headman and his wife are great and right now so far they are the couple I look up to at least until something happens. They take care of me just like I was there real daughter. and their kids treat me just like I am their sister. I really like that family. they are all very helpful and active within the village. So that is nice to see.
Today, is the 14th of October which means it is Jason's birthday today here. He will be really old coming in at the age of 31! OLD MAN! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON! I hope you got your hand made card in the mail.
Keep sending me messages on facebook and e-mails and comments on my blog please! It really helps to hear from. Hopefully the next time I am on here Chris will be here!
I also have been to the movie theaters twice since i put up a post. I saw tropical thunder and pinapple express. It was great I felt like I was right there in America. Til I walked outside and realized I sure as hell wasn't. But it was nice to sit down and listen to humor and good english that I understand and genuily laughed at. When I came back from the beach weekend I was so excited to come back to my village. I realy missed alot of people in my village. Especially Sophia! When I got back I saw the AOG preacher's wife one of my favorite people in the village. I think I have talked about her before. But she wasn't looking good. She had these huge black sunglasses on. I asked her what was wrong she said that there was a problem at home and she got injured. She turned a little bit and I could see the outline of this huge black bruise around her eye and she was just coming back from the hospital. I mean I have never seen a black eye like this before. And right there I knew that the paster hit her. I felt so sick to my stomach. Just when I thought I found the perfect couple in Fiji to look up to it was crashed. I had no idea what to do. I wanted to cook her a dish and bring it over to her house but I was scared of her husband. And him and I were good friends. On the bus I kept thinking how embrassed she must feel wearing those glasses and hiding her face and knowing damn well that everyone knows what happen no matter how many times she lies for her husband. I can't stand how everyone just accepted it and didn't seem to care and that this stuff just kind of happens and it's their problem in the marriage and that we should interfear. But I couldn't stand the fact that he hit her I let people know. I told kelera and she was telling me all the stories that happened to her that her ex-husband did. I think the AOG pastor knows how I feel because I am sure people have told him and the fact that I will leave a place if he is around and I never say hi to him. So we will see what will come of that. Aparantly, he has apologized to the church and all that bullshit makes it okay but not for me. I will never accept that!
So I don't know if I have mentioned but Kendall's boyfriend is coming the same time Chris is coming. On the same plane! We are going to have so much fun I can't wait.
Anyways, my village has had two soli's (fundraisers). the first one for education and schooling for the kids and the second on Fiji Day for the Methodist church which I completely disagree on. Because these people give ALL there money to the church and don't save some for themselves and don't have food to feed themselves and are living in tin shacks. because the Methodist church says if you give lots of money that Jesus will take care of the rest but in reality these people are still hungry and still have not electricity and are living in tin shacks. I can't imagine if they gave all that money for the electricity. I mean they give thousands of dollars and I still have no clue where this money come froms. these people of no jobs. I can't understand that just yet.
During the soli the women of course did all the cooking and I even stayed up til 1 in the morning peeling potatoes and then got up at 6 in the morning to present a sevusevu i think that is in my pictures. I asked one of the guys how he felt about all these women twice his age doing all this work and all he does is sit around. He said well that is a woman's job and you all know me I blew up on him. So i think the next soli I am going to strongly suggest them to switch things up and have the men do all the work and the women sit around. kelera said they did that one year and it worked. So I want to see it myself.
People in my village are starting to mistake me as an Indian because I am starting to get quite dark in this hot Fijian sun. Which is a complement in my book but not relaly good to be mistaken as an Indian in a Fijian village.
we had a soccer game a few weekends ago in tavua and it was awesome. i felt like I was in high school again. I am playing my usual position as right full back and it feels real good! We won our first game and tied our second against Nadi. We always lose against them and that game was like playing against PHS. that is how crazy the crowd was and how excited we were to beat them. I saved alot of goals and almost got into a fight. So it felt just like home for me. It was great!
We had our in-service training at a resort and I got to meet and see all the volunteers in Fiji. I was relaly nice and refreshing to see everyone again. But sucked to know that I won't see them all again for another year. But I got to lay out at the pool and get alot of information about projects I can do and went out with all my friends. So it was a good time.
After the trainging I went to my friends Sarah's house is Navua on the other side of the island and went to this resort called the Uprising. you will see pictures of it in my album. this place was amazing. I wanted to stay for weeks. I never wanted to leave. I have never seen a place like this before. I would love to take chris here but the bus ride would not be worth it because of time. But maybe if other people visit i can plan better and get there Oh yeah I know why We can't go there no one I know could ever afford it. I keep forgetting about stuff like that.
So my village has big big plans for Chris's arrival. the women are preparing a huge dinner thursday night when he gets there. And there are a few more surprises but I don't want to say because I want chris to be surprised. let's just say I almost cried when they told me what they are going to do. I told them they didn't have to do all of this but they said that he is coming all the way from America to visit you and the village and you are now apart of the village and the family here. It is a part of their culture to do this. So I can't wait I will talk alot of pictures trust me!
So lately all I have been doing is washing my clothes and cleaning the house. and working on my community map where I draw up the house and surrounding areas of my village which is considably easy since my village is bearly 40 houses.
One tuesday I went to the headman 's village house to cut weeds in their kasava fields. It was one of the hardest jobs ever. My back was killing me. I was trying to be like a fijian woman and lets face I am not but at least I tried right? After a while it started raining and all the women told me to go back to the house and help cook cause they thought I was going to get really sick. So I went back and cooked and ate the best meal ever. It was so good. they prepared a special plate for me which is a big honor even so that they are still doing that after all this time I have been in the village. I think they did it because I did some manual labor for them. Anyways, the headman and his wife are great and right now so far they are the couple I look up to at least until something happens. They take care of me just like I was there real daughter. and their kids treat me just like I am their sister. I really like that family. they are all very helpful and active within the village. So that is nice to see.
Today, is the 14th of October which means it is Jason's birthday today here. He will be really old coming in at the age of 31! OLD MAN! HAPPY BIRTHDAY JASON! I hope you got your hand made card in the mail.
Keep sending me messages on facebook and e-mails and comments on my blog please! It really helps to hear from. Hopefully the next time I am on here Chris will be here!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Finding Nemo with Kendall...
Having the time of my life! Check my pictures just posted alot. Sorry for not being on here for so long. It's getting busy but I will find time to put up a much longer post. Miss you all!
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