Group 83 at our Swearing In ceremony, December 17, 2010
This was in the training village. It was the day before our interviews and I was a mess. I just wanted to find a quiet place to study alone. Impossible. Her mom brought me a snack (because that's what we do in Samoa) and left for bingo. This two year old was alone, as far as I could see and determined to fix her overalls. She was having none of letting me help.
The view near the waterfall I visited with Ruta.
The cutie carrying clean laundry that his mom had just washed in the river.
Me and Ruta at the beach fale by the house where she grew up. She's now a nurse in Wellington.
That's Ruta, in the foreground. Fighting for space on New Year's Eve day at the beach.
My village is so large it has "sub-villages". This is the one where I'll be living. That's the main road that goes around the island, and the view from my house. So disappointed I wasn't sent to Central Asia, where there's a foot of snow.
Oh, stop rubbing it in.
ReplyDeleteThe photos were icing on the cake.
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