Enjoy!
Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Monday, April 24, 2017
PAD Part 55 (Final Photo a Day Post!)
This is going to be my last update for my Photo a Day Project. Since I started it when I got to Ambae, it feels right to finish it now that I've moved out of the island and to the capital. I will keep updating this blog occasionally, but without the regularity of the past two years.
This project has been a pain in the butt at times, and I've missed and made up for more days than I'd like to admit, but I'm so glad to have these photos to look back on. I will update once more (probably tomorrow?) with a compilation video of the photos from the past year.
Living in Vanuatu has been a trip, and while I'm sad to have left my friends and family on Ambae, I'm looking forward to getting down to business with my new job in the Capital.
Here's to one more year!
This project has been a pain in the butt at times, and I've missed and made up for more days than I'd like to admit, but I'm so glad to have these photos to look back on. I will update once more (probably tomorrow?) with a compilation video of the photos from the past year.
Living in Vanuatu has been a trip, and while I'm sad to have left my friends and family on Ambae, I'm looking forward to getting down to business with my new job in the Capital.
Here's to one more year!
Thursday, April 13, 2017
Monday, March 27, 2017
PAD Part 53
Bianca showing off one of the songs she learned in kindy. She's grown so much! I'm going to miss this kid a lot...
Monday, March 13, 2017
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
Thursday, February 16, 2017
Tuesday, February 7, 2017
The Place of Los and Vus and Nas
In the two years I've been on Ambae, I've traveled to a lot of different villages; for weddings, funerals, work trips, or just for fun.
I've compiled on this map a very rough estimate of all the places I've been to. The red line is where I've traveled on the main road (there's really only one road), the blue line, the parts of the main road I have not yet been down, and the green, the trek to Manaro.
You'd think that after living here for a while and going to so many places, I'd know the names of a lot of the villages, right? Well I do..kind of. Even with places I know well, I keep mixing up the names, mostly because so many of them are so similar!
Let's look at some examples of the los:
- Lolomaganda
- Lolowai
- Lolopuepue
- Lovunvili
- Lolovoli
- Lolovele
- Lolovenue
- Lolovange
And the vus:
- Vuimburuku
- Vuinago
- Vuingalato
And the nas:
- Navonda
- Nangire
- Nanigama
Confusing, right?
I've compiled on this map a very rough estimate of all the places I've been to. The red line is where I've traveled on the main road (there's really only one road), the blue line, the parts of the main road I have not yet been down, and the green, the trek to Manaro.
You'd think that after living here for a while and going to so many places, I'd know the names of a lot of the villages, right? Well I do..kind of. Even with places I know well, I keep mixing up the names, mostly because so many of them are so similar!
Let's look at some examples of the los:
- Lolomaganda
- Lolowai
- Lolopuepue
- Lovunvili
- Lolovoli
- Lolovele
- Lolovenue
- Lolovange
And the vus:
- Vuimburuku
- Vuinago
- Vuingalato
And the nas:
- Navonda
- Nangire
- Nanigama
Confusing, right?
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
PAD Part 49
Caveat about this week's Photo a Day Project. I was sick for quite a few days, and decided that rather than taking more pictures of the inside of my house, I'd use some old pictures that I like that didn't get used in previous photo a days for various reasons.
Watching a movie with the fam
Bianca and friends
Supporting Nova halfway around the world!
My dad and some recruits working on building his bed
Sieving kava
Before it's sieved
The swing tree
Cutting the grass by my office
Thomas holding fish out the window to prevent fish juice from getting on the upholstery
Thanking important people at a wedding with mats and laplap
Avery and Kathleen outside of Avery's house
Kava being served from a truck at a soccer game
Road market. There's generally no one actually working these kind of stalls; people just trust that you'll leave the money for whatever you take
Enjoying a soccer game
An inland resevoir
Monday, January 16, 2017
Thursday, January 12, 2017
Aoba vs. Ambae
Hey all!
Apologies this post is coming late this week. I'm in the capital for our Close of Service (or Continuation of Service, in my case!) Conference this week, and have been a little busy. This time around I'm just going to leave you with a little anecdote.
If any of you have seen maps of Vanuatu, my island is marked by two different names; sometimes one, sometimes the other. These names are Aoba and Ambae. The story is that when white people came to Ambae, there was no common language. They tried to ask what the name of the island was, but when they pointed around, to try to show "here", they pointed at a bird. The local they were talking to, then told them "That's a bird", or "aoba". The explorers of course thought he was answering their question, and that's how the confusion arose!
So, Ambae is the real name of my island, but if you see Aoba on any map, just look it as a testament to the difficulties of meeting new people!
Apologies this post is coming late this week. I'm in the capital for our Close of Service (or Continuation of Service, in my case!) Conference this week, and have been a little busy. This time around I'm just going to leave you with a little anecdote.
If any of you have seen maps of Vanuatu, my island is marked by two different names; sometimes one, sometimes the other. These names are Aoba and Ambae. The story is that when white people came to Ambae, there was no common language. They tried to ask what the name of the island was, but when they pointed around, to try to show "here", they pointed at a bird. The local they were talking to, then told them "That's a bird", or "aoba". The explorers of course thought he was answering their question, and that's how the confusion arose!
So, Ambae is the real name of my island, but if you see Aoba on any map, just look it as a testament to the difficulties of meeting new people!
Tuesday, January 3, 2017
PAD Part 47
Warning: this post contains pictures of some dead animals (AKA dinner)
Nelson rocking out to some Eminem
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