the busses and the crepes go drip drip drip

in the pics: a hike up the side of the mountain, at the beachfales called Faofao. there was even a "hiking" sign. i was impressed.

6/29
I’m trying to get back to my village this Monday morning. The first bus that usually rolls out about 7:30am didn’t show. I saw another Lefaga bus, but the driver said he wasn’t going to Lefaga. So here I sit, drinking some ginger tea with some time to watch the world go by. The bus drivers like to have hood ornaments on their busses. Usually I see a female figurine with wings. I just saw a small rack of antlers. Different. Unique.

Another lefaga bus goes by. It is going the wrong way…it is going to town, not back to the village, which is where I need to go right now.

I associate Hitachi with electronics, TVs, circuits, computer-type things. I guess they also make large earth moving machinery. Or maybe a twice removed subsidiary cousin??



6/28
A weekend house sitting for my friend Kat. Making food is fun: crepes, lamb curry, all with a layer of cheese. The downside is that after gorging on yummy food my stomach feels of—not hard cardio or workouts ;(
Watching the new Star Trek: “Let go of logical. Do what feels good. What’s necessary is always wise.” I think that’s good advice…from the Vulcan.


6/26
Today has been brought to you by the formulas that float in MS Excel and by the word “drip.” My computer students took their third practical test on the computers—MS Excel. Half of them did not remember how to enter the first formula. That was kind of disappointing. It still seems like it is a black box of reasoning and synthesis of information for most samoans—and I think two years will not be enough time to crack it. The kids are raised on direct commands about how to do everything. Thinking on their own is very outside the samoan culture.

Drip drip drip…goes the shower faucet in the peace corps office—oh well, it’s back to (cold) bucket showers. I did wash my hair three times again (with shampoo). That was nice. Now we need to add to that a sauna and hot water and things would be awesome. Ahhh…but then it wouldn’t be a peace corps adventure, would it ;)

Drip drip drip goes my nose. I’m house sitting this weekend for a friend. I don’t know what it was but when I stepped into the house I started having a sneezing attack. I must have sneezed about 30 times—maybe more. Not enjoyable, but yes, my nose did feel cleansed, or is on fire more like it? Then my nose starts dripping, not the green goo, but clear, almost water-like. And it wouldn’t stop. I haven’t been swimming or riding my bike because it has been grey and constantly raining bad excuse, but it’s what I got right now. My eating of fruit and drinking milk is almost non existent. Oh—the challenges of staying healthy. I ate three samoan oranges yesterday to try and blast some vitamin C into my system.