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

PAD Part 48

How many people does it take to remove a splinter? This many, apparently!

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!

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

PAD Part 47

Warning: this post contains pictures of some dead animals (AKA dinner)

Nelson rocking out to some Eminem