Bula: hello, is about the only work I have learnt (and with my linguistic abilities, that will most likely be it!) everyone is so friendly! Apparently it is the ‘island way’ and it really reminds me of Belize, which makes me optimistic because I loved Belize!
I left Oz very early in the morning to fly to New Zealand where I would get my connecting fligh, landing in Nadi Fiji in the evening. New Zealand look beautiful form the air, lots of green hills and water ways. It was very strange when I realised that the sunset that I saw when flying was the sun setting in the north….
The next morning I met up with Owen, another student from England who in volunteering for Coral for Conservation and we made our way to meet Austin: the guy who runs the organisation/research, and since then two Brazilians have arrive who are really nice.
I have been at the farm in Sigatoka since thursday until Sunday morning when we are going to Moutoriki Island to start research on Monday. Really really excited for that! Me and Austin have been chatting through the logistics, and its getting me very excited to start collecting data. The farm is amazing, 20km up the river valley from Sigatoka it is green mountains and pastures. The farms grown cassava, starfruit, paw paw, lemons, limes, guava, coconut, grapefruit, pineapples, corn, beans and a few other local root vegetables! All of the food, including jam is homemade and the meals, cooked by an lovely Indian woman is stuff I have never tried before! Me and Owen went for a trek up the stream to some waterfalls yesterday and have been helping out on the farm today, grinding coconut is great fun (and yummy).
Saturday we are having a “Lovo”, which is a traditional celebration using a ground oven. it smells amazing at the moment! I have to say I am not a fan of the traditional “Cava” drink, made out of a root, it looks like puddle water and tastes like soil eugh, I am soooo not a fan! Unfortunately you have to drink (down) at least one bowl for each welcome or traditional ceremony.
I seem to have already have a reputation of clumsy, don’t know how THAT happened…
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