Vanuatu PCV Journal

Coming Home

Mon, 5 Dec 2005 16:32:45 -0500

I'm coming home! And I wish I could say I was ready, but I'm not. But if I wait around until I'm ready, I have a feeling I'd be waiting a while. It's hard to "wrap-up" such a life-defining experience,

FINIS NAO!

Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:31:00 -0500

So the last couple weeks went something like this. It's customary for most Peace Corps Volunteers to get a "Last Kaekae," with their village before they leave, where every kind of laplap is prepared a

Leaving Site

Thu, 17 Nov 2005 16:29:48 -0500

I've decided to leave my village in the most complicated fashion possible. Most volunteers have a big garage sale in their village when they leave in order to make a couple extra bucks to pay for a po

Fat Americans

Fri, 4 Nov 2005 16:28:40 -0500

The other day I was hanging out with my friend Maru when we started talking about my imminent departure, which is all we really talk about now- "klosap yu go naoia." Maru was telling me that she didn'

GLOW Update

Mon, 24 Oct 2005 16:27:30 -0400

If you read that last entry, thanks for bearing with me. I just finished my second girls' camp on Santo, which went A LOT smoother than the first. There were fewer girls and most of them had very litt