disclaimer of an adventure

these statements and opinions are mine mine mine, and not peace corps...so they are only
mine..and mine alone...btw.this is the disclaimer;)

talofa..here is the address of our flickr account where you can see all the pics different
volunteers from group79 have posted..http://www.flickr.com/groups/samoa79
We are heading to our training village for a week..so I probably won't post until we get
back to the hotel in Apia.It's interesting to think about how western culture is pressing into Samoan ways
(fa'asamoa). There's a McDonalds on the corner in Apia close to our hotel. I see many Samoans in jeans and shorts. I see the Manikins in teh store windows with the 36-24-36 hour glass shape--what does that do to a young girl (and expectations placed on her) when that has is not the way it has been for hundreds of years?Kind of like what I experienced in Zimbabwe.The open houses (fale) I see right next to the road where cares are zooming by at 50-60MPH...things are changing quickly. I wonder what the scene will be in two years when I say goodbye.

some inspiration..
But there's that starlit burst of animal laughter
Success is problem solving. "No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple
form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential
element in thinking."