So much had happened in the last few weeks I can hardly remember it all! I have become accustomed to island life and I’m really enjoying living on Nguna. I have started working at the school which is ace. It took some time to find my feet but now that I have it is hammer and tongs, just the way I like it. The kids are ace and I am learning more form them than they are from me! Living so close to the ocean is fantastic, I often swim after school with my little brother and sister or in the evenings before dinner with my Mama. When I come home from school I have a rest then help (watch) my mama cook dinner. Slowly she is entrusting me with jobs, like collecting water from the well and scratching the coconut to make coconut cream and food for the chooks. Its quite hard work and I have a few small wounds to show for it J I cooked up a dinner for the family last week, pasta with nepolitana sauce, garlic bread and a bottle of Barossa Shiraz, it was the first time any of the family had tasted pasta, garlic or wine – fantastic, they loved it which I was really pleased about. It made me incredibly home sick though, it tasted just like home! It was all I could do not to cry at the dinner table! That has been my only major bout of home-sickness though. I have got my head around bislama now which is cool, except that my family now want to teach me the local language which is QUITE a bit more complicated! Its fair enough though, I babble on in English, which is their 4th or 5th language, only fair that I have a go at learning their mother tongue. I am having so much fun at school, it is heaps different to Australia, in ways that I could not have anticipated. The kids collect flowers ever morning for the tables! Cute or what? They all play soccer like little fiends and sing at the top of their little voices at every given opportunity. OK, I am going for dinner tonight at one of the AYAD’ s houses then tomorrow is a mad day of shopping , groceries for my Mama, A stash of chocolate for me and a heap of photocopying for the school. Love to all, hope everyone is well
xoxo