mom's facebook has warm chinese food
in the pics: some random pics...the hat my mom bought me...in savaii, a sweeeet sunset from the top of the hill i like to ride my bike too; singing for mother's day; some cool refreshment.
5/31
It’s school break now….LALOMAUGA. coming to my family yesterday. Lalomauga means under the mountain—meaning it’s inland, not close to the ocean…well, relatively. It’s hard to walk to the ocean from LM. So that means no swimming in the ocean while I’m here…swimming in the waterfall?
I taught the kids the connect-the-dots-to-make-the-boxes game. The person with the
most boxes wins. I don’t know the official name. and we played some Frisbee..of course.
Yesterday: went to watch the rugby games. Lalomauga won both games (team A and B). the A team will be the champions I think. They have not lost any games. I wonder how excellence arises out of the culture of not striving to get ahead.
5/27
In Apia…Some good Chinese food, a warm shower (I washed my hair three times…warm water in my shower (or bucket for that matter) is a rare thing where I live. Warm ocean, cold showers), some stretching (finally), and now writing in my journal—of which I’m doing very much of right now. AND I have some keke saina and yogurt for a snack before bed..yum!
Samoans like to be around and talk to people—all the time. Being around people usually drains my energy. I get recharged by myself. Tonight was a very be-by-myself night—while many other PCVs are out drinking—I’ve been drinking (Vailima Gold—the strong stuff) for the last five nights. I miss feeling healthy.
It is really hard to sit with someone and have them tell you things. ..such as:
“my kids respect me…I think”
“I drink every night to stop the nightmares. The bombs go boom and I wake up screaming if I don’t drink.”
“I lost my best friend and lover. I’m scared to open to someone else.”
A picture in my journal of a compass with some words on it: God, youth, education, yoga, computers, movement, service, inspiration.
Where is love…with God.
Ocean of light—there’s a lot of light for one thing. But swimming in the ocean would be awesome.
I’m in Apia for a few days for a computer teachers workshop. We are at a mormon school compound. Very fancy compared to my school. The room we are in is sealed, has a network, internet, and air conditioning. I’m glad I’m not working in a room with air conditioning. My skin was very dry after just 3 days. I like where I’m working just fine. I taught a session on file management. Other teachers seemed to enjoy it. How much they will take home/back to their classrooms I ddon’t know. I didn’t have a fancy powerpoint set up…but that may have helped them later. My teaching style right now is so “in-the-moment”
5/23
I found a Bible story book in English…and one in Samoan. So I’ve been reading with one of the samoans. He reads the English version and I read the samoan version.
God begins to make things
Amata ona faia mea e le Atua.
The first rainbow
O le uluai Nuaanua
A brave man
O se tagata toa
Almost a month: hmmm many thoughts in purple book (#8) that I’m too lazy to write out, but I will, all in good time. It’s amazing how when you’re in the middle of something you don’t think about how it’s changing you. I was not thinking about teaching, faith and service when I was in college. I was thinking about electrical engineering, digital nose breaks up with my multimeter. Oh, and a little boom boom toot toot of the musical instruments. I’ve been doing the Peace Corps thing in Samoa. It’s been intense. Everyone wants a piece of yo
u, whether to laugh at what you’re doing, or ask you where you’re going, or share some food with you. Have we heard of “I want to be alone, walk alone.” Well, I usually get that time when I walk in the morning. Which is a good thing.
My mom sent me an email “you mom is now on Facebook!” wow mom, I’m impressed. Now how many friends can you stack up? I haven’t spent much time on facebook..usually my meager internet time is taken up with just checking my email, posting blog adventures/pics, and download drivers/software for my computers at school. Such as life in the land of slow internet.
To live gratitude is to touch heaven…hmmmmm.
5/31
It’s school break now….LALOMAUGA. coming to my family yesterday. Lalomauga means under the mountain—meaning it’s inland, not close to the ocean…well, relatively. It’s hard to walk to the ocean from LM. So that means no swimming in the ocean while I’m here…swimming in the waterfall?
I taught the kids the connect-the-dots-to-make-the-boxes game. The person with the
most boxes wins. I don’t know the official name. and we played some Frisbee..of course.Yesterday: went to watch the rugby games. Lalomauga won both games (team A and B). the A team will be the champions I think. They have not lost any games. I wonder how excellence arises out of the culture of not striving to get ahead.
5/27
In Apia…Some good Chinese food, a warm shower (I washed my hair three times…warm water in my shower (or bucket for that matter) is a rare thing where I live. Warm ocean, cold showers), some stretching (finally), and now writing in my journal—of which I’m doing very much of right now. AND I have some keke saina and yogurt for a snack before bed..yum!
Samoans like to be around and talk to people—all the time. Being around people usually drains my energy. I get recharged by myself. Tonight was a very be-by-myself night—while many other PCVs are out drinking—I’ve been drinking (Vailima Gold—the strong stuff) for the last five nights. I miss feeling healthy.
It is really hard to sit with someone and have them tell you things. ..such as:
“my kids respect me…I think”
“I drink every night to stop the nightmares. The bombs go boom and I wake up screaming if I don’t drink.”
“I lost my best friend and lover. I’m scared to open to someone else.”
A picture in my journal of a compass with some words on it: God, youth, education, yoga, computers, movement, service, inspiration.
Where is love…with God.
Ocean of light—there’s a lot of light for one thing. But swimming in the ocean would be awesome.
I’m in Apia for a few days for a computer teachers workshop. We are at a mormon school compound. Very fancy compared to my school. The room we are in is sealed, has a network, internet, and air conditioning. I’m glad I’m not working in a room with air conditioning. My skin was very dry after just 3 days. I like where I’m working just fine. I taught a session on file management. Other teachers seemed to enjoy it. How much they will take home/back to their classrooms I ddon’t know. I didn’t have a fancy powerpoint set up…but that may have helped them later. My teaching style right now is so “in-the-moment”
5/23
I found a Bible story book in English…and one in Samoan. So I’ve been reading with one of the samoans. He reads the English version and I read the samoan version.
God begins to make things
Amata ona faia mea e le Atua.
The first rainbow
O le uluai Nuaanua
A brave man
O se tagata toa
Almost a month: hmmm many thoughts in purple book (#8) that I’m too lazy to write out, but I will, all in good time. It’s amazing how when you’re in the middle of something you don’t think about how it’s changing you. I was not thinking about teaching, faith and service when I was in college. I was thinking about electrical engineering, digital nose breaks up with my multimeter. Oh, and a little boom boom toot toot of the musical instruments. I’ve been doing the Peace Corps thing in Samoa. It’s been intense. Everyone wants a piece of yo
u, whether to laugh at what you’re doing, or ask you where you’re going, or share some food with you. Have we heard of “I want to be alone, walk alone.” Well, I usually get that time when I walk in the morning. Which is a good thing.My mom sent me an email “you mom is now on Facebook!” wow mom, I’m impressed. Now how many friends can you stack up? I haven’t spent much time on facebook..usually my meager internet time is taken up with just checking my email, posting blog adventures/pics, and download drivers/software for my computers at school. Such as life in the land of slow internet.
To live gratitude is to touch heaven…hmmmmm.
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