moon drops lodge into an important spot

in the pics: food. a plate of samoan food; pig's head (I eat a lot of pig in samoa. i like the crunchy pig skin); tattoos; vai ti polo (without any sugar--the way i like it), and samoan tea (with LOTS of sugar)

8/8

Poem: Moon drops in the ocean

Waves crash in the dark

Moon shines bright overhead

Puffy white clouds

Hang lazily in the sky.

Pale light drapes the landscape

Colors of darkness

In a bit

Moon drops into ocean

Returning land to a darkness

Where stars have a say

In the play of nighttime.

Night envelopes

Starry patchwork twinkles bright

Cricket song collides with waves crashing

A peaceful sound

Darkness enfold the eyes

Cricket sounds envelop the ears

Fully awake to the night sounds.

--matt Crichton

8/10/09

8/4

I was talking with some peace corps friends about being fat—overweight, obese. In samoa, a man wants to marry a big woman, or make her fat because it shows he feeds his family well. I asked “what about all the pulatasi and dress shops in Apia that have skinny skinny manikins?” someone said, “you can’t find a fat manikin.” Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. I bet such a thing exists.

A good day I think (those are important). Even though there was no school (the second week) due to the swine flue (scare). I taught the teachers how to do research on the encyclopedias installed on our computers. We do not have internet at our school. One encyclopedia is called WikiTaxi. I can’t copy and paste text in WIkiTaxi ;( then I made a draft of a year book I’m going to have the students do as a project. I created a lesson plan for the research—capturing what’s on the board, which I don’t usually do…documenting.

Important things

· Profound courage to never relinquish love

· Come dance with me

· Nothing evolves us like love

· Lodges itself between one’s teeth

· God is more interested in holy than happy