One week in...

Kapuna Evenings: Warm, light breeze, dark but outside lights of houses dimly light up the path leading from one end of the hospital to the other. I can hear singing coming from one of the houses, and the kids playing. I get into bed and through the wire I can see trees moving slightly. I can hear cicadas, frogs, geckos and roosters! It is taking a while to get used to the night time noises....

Kapuna Mornings: Roosters start about 3am but things start happening about 6am. I keep rolling over willing the roosters to be quiet for a bit longer. Get up, check the bread maker for its offering, breaky and then to school at 8am. Start with a devotion and then straight into maths!

Kapuna Afternoons: After school it is home for some skipping (man, GOOD exercise!) under my house, playing with the kids, ckecking out what the tide is doing, practicing ukulele and getting ready to settle in for the evening...

On Saturday my class took me across the river for an adventure - a jungle walk complete with tasting local bush fruit and learning about some more animals. We have been learning about being archaeologists and finding artefacts from the past so it was appropriate that we were off to investigate an old sawmill from the 1920's. The kids were up there swinging their machetes wildly to clear the creeper vine that had smothered everything. Luckily, they knew their way through the bush pretty well! Then back across the river, home for a sago grub feast (like huhu grubs) and a coconut.

Sunday church was awesome - some fun singing and a good sermon.

Life is pretty simple here!

Discovery of the week: Brown rice with milk powder sprinkled on top with chopped banana is a great lunch.

Triumph of the week: Being infection free despite having got blisters from the first time I walked in gumboots without socks. I have devised a sneaky system now... (it has rained all ngiht for the last 3 nights = very muddy grass. That, and Kapuna is on the edge of a swamp.)

Glorious moment of the week: Walking through the mud in bare feet with the kids on our way to the other classrooms and to the market for some food!

Challenge for this week: Taking over the school stuff to release Barb to do all the other a million things that she gets pulled into do. Getting to know more people and learning some more motu language.

I took some pics but my SD card is refusing to release them onto the computer so I will NOT use that card from now on and will promise some great pics for the next blog!!