On Friday, a couple of the boys and I had planned on going to visit our housekeeper (Marama, but she insists we call her "Mom") in her village about 3 hours north of here. I got super excited! But then we got up Saturday morning and found out that Mom's sister was visiting in Nadi so she had to go there and we would have to wait to go see her village until another weekend.
At this point in the day I was freaking out, because I needed to get out of Suva really bad. The weather report for the day didn't look good, but we decided to pile into a minibus anyways and go out to a resort on the coral coast (Pacific Harbour) where everyone in the program stayed during their pre-orientation trip. Since everybody got to know the staff and stuff there at that point, they were cool with us coming in and hanging out by the pool and the beach for the afternoon. It was a nice beach, nothing special, but still pretty. And it was low tide so sand dollars were scattered all over the beach.
Some of the many shells I picked up at the beach. My shell collection is going to have a really big section for Fiji by the time I get back! We probably grabbed about a hundred sand dollars - I'm keeping a bunch for myself, but the boys want to take some and paint them so that we have chips for playing poker, haha. The large conch shell on the left still had something dead in there I think, because this morning our porch smelled like low tide. Ew. I had checked it thoroughly beforehand - I found a couple other conches on the beach, but they had animals still inside them so I poked them to make sure they were still alive and threw them back in the ocean.
It started raining when we had a couple hours left at the beach, which was a shame. We had the minibus driver come back, pick us up, and take us home, where everybody showered and then we immediately went out to our favorite indian restaurant (Copper Chimney) and had a huge dinner together. I got a tandoori chicken pizza that tasted a whole lot like barbeque chicken pizza back home...so good. We came back to our house and watched movies, while I fingerpainted some decorations for my door:
The little squares say "Annelise's Room". Because people here don't call me Iggy. It's weird. But now I've got a lizard and a bunch of bugs guarding my room. I think it makes it look like an 8 year old boy lives there, but it's much better than my old plain green door.
It rained all night last night, and all morning this morning, so today looks like it'll be spent inside. I've got to do some schoolwork (for the first time in a month)...Fijian test tomorrow and a couple of lab reports this week, so we'll see how all of that goes.
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