We have been in the village for a week now, today (saturday) we were given the nice surprise of going into town. Naturally we all ran for the nearest computer...
The Village is tucked between green mountains scattered with horses and cows.
There are two students to a house where we live with our mangoo (dad) and nao (mom), everyone has many siblings but I don't know the word for that. Everyone is so happy to have us, so accomodating, opening their homes to us, cooking for us, washing our clothes we are very grateful to our loving hosts.
We eat all of our meals together as a group in a community house where we enjoy delish meals while sitting on the floor. The meals are always yummy. My personal favorite being breakfast, who wouldn't love cake for breakfast??
We have been working on building a road to go throughout the village. The men of the village are such strong workers, the road is really coming along nicely (us carpe diem students are pretty good workers as well).
Two days ago we went for a hike up the mountains, it was more difficult for some of us. Some of the group decided to hike to the top while others went to the source of water for the village, a beautiful and huge waterfall. Jumping into the cold water made the whole, hot hike worth it. Then on our way down it started to rain, pour actually. Everyone was soaked but we just had so much fun making our way back to the village. It was so beautiful with wild horses all around. We had to swim cross several rivers on our way back, without the help of the Fijian men, there for sure would be less of us here today. That day will definitely stick out as a favorite of the trip for some of us.
Everything is going well, the group is getting along, enjoying the sun and the love of the Nananu people...
we will post some awesome pictures when we can!!
Mode! (mo-day, bye in Fijian)
No comments:
Post a Comment