#LuganvilleSanto
Last week in Santo and I have to fold up my internet, get my last bit of peace corps junk in a bag to give back things like med kit, life jacket, books, bike helmet and whatever else I can find that is theirs. Then get my counterpart to sign off on my form... and pack my last bit of stuff. I have a few items left to sell then its back to Vila.
I was going to entertain a bit this week but since all the fun stuff is done not sure what is left to do... riri not really interested since its cold and cloudy swimming sounds pretty uninteresting... the cave same thing sort of... oh well. I could actually leave wednesday and save a few bucks. Something to consider.
Internet at my house is dead... so can't skype or communicate at the house... so much for wasting money on internet service in this country. They (digicel) guarantee zero uptime and they make good on their promise.
9:30am
Well Kensley is not at the office. Hmm... guess I will go home and pack some bags up and sell off some more items.
3:10pm
Best email ever just received:
Departs on 14 Aug Fri
1) Qantas Airways
Flight 376
Port Vila, VU VLI - 07:00 am
Sydney, AU
Flight 376
Port Vila, VU VLI - 07:00 am
Sydney, AU
Layover Time (SYD) 3h 15m
2) American Airlines
Flight 7308
Aircraft: 380
Sydney, AU
SYD - 01:00 pm
Dallas Fort Worth, TX
Flight 7308
Aircraft: 380
Sydney, AU
SYD - 01:00 pm
Dallas Fort Worth, TX
Layover Time (DFW) 1h 40m
3) American Airlines
Flight 2302
Aircraft: M80
Dallas Fort Worth, TX
DFW - 03:15 pm
Minneapolis, MN
MSP - 05:44 pm
It's been a good day to reflect... this photo is from a few weeks ago but one of my favorite:
(04) Tuesday
Hung out with "Response Kate"
Had a few beers in the Millennium park hiding under the stage as the rain fell in wave after wave.
(05) Wednesday
Well the day consisted of a whole lotta nothing. Perfectly santo.
I managed to attempt selling my airtight dry box to cole with dehumidifer but only after dropping the dehumidifier and spilling out some of the silica putting it back together and convincing him it was not in fact broken so was I then forced to toss in an extra 50 dollars worth of items in order to extract 40 bucks for the 80 dollar drybox and dehumidifier. woohoo I get to eat couple more days without using my credit card which no one will except.
Besides that not much else... I put in my notice to Kensley but he was not there to sign it... he was down somewhere in south santo. Maybe tomorrow. fingers crossed.
And I cancelled my internet for starting tomorrow... woohoo no more bills for the worst internet service on the planet: Digicel Vanuatu.
(06) Thursday
5:00 am
I just woke up to a pretty vivid dream and when i woke my room was unexpectedly pitch black (no blue light from my speaker noise drowner outer) and silent (no constraint noise suppression from endlessly looping itunes music) and no fans buzzing back and forth... shit lost my power hmm... well figured it might get cut... so i sat there for a moment to catch my breathe because the dream was wild. I was some kind of magical creature sort of like a like a wolf but one that could run fast enough to fly and there were two others with me crossing back and forth like ribbons in a jetstream of wind. Our long furry tails whipping around and then once we reached a certain spot in this river basin we all three stopped running and I rose up into the air and did something in a blur or motion that caused a spell to be cast and a burst of light hit a the distance cloud and a rain shower of flowers came pouring down and moved towards us passing over at a rapid rate to then douse us all in a deluge of brightly colored flower petals. Felt pretty cool casting a spell in my dream. The other two creatures did other spells of some sort but the last one wolf-creature, casted a darkness spell that cut out all light from the sun, all the heat as well, and sound and a feeling deep dread like fog drifted over me and i feel like i could not breathe... thats when i woke up choking in the darkness.
8:50 am
I read a silly article in the Independant newspaper... about the malo project. They call me a BISHOP... what? I am a Peace Corps not a Catholic religious leader. And the Basko guy and Sale the work man sounds like they did all the work. Pretty funny.
2:30pm
Nothing to do... you can see that be the less busy I get the more I tend to write to kill the time. I tried sleeping for the last three days for 10 or more hours and then reading. But after doing that for many days on end my body is getting sore from lack of exercise. I figured going to Attar and using the internet now that mine is finally dead was the best move possible.
I was at Wally's earlier today trying to sell off my last remaining items... hope he buys some. I am not dead broke but pretty close to it.
(07) Friday
Had an amazing going away night... nothing planned which is perfect.
couple photos for fun:
Hung out with Bryan and hunt for Independent weekly newspaper because there was that horribly written news story about the opening of the computer lab at Nandiutu... we fond one but also these delicious flying foxes... yumyum... time to make soup huh:
After that Bryan found this jersey and later I took a photo in my nasty dirty house wearing my old joke of a jersey I bought last year for a gag party.
Went to Aqua and had some drinks with my fav crew in santo:
Daria was wearing an elephant dress
Bryan and kate making some funny faces:
Wally and his kid post arm wrestling kiki:
(08) Saturday
going away speggit party:
(09) Sunday
Just landed in Vila and updating blog and such after some something to eat... not sure what though. in 5 short days I will be back home. Can't wait.
Last prop plane ride back to Vila... and now its just wait till the end and go home: see the plane on the horizon near the clouds?
Flight 2302
Aircraft: M80
Dallas Fort Worth, TX
DFW - 03:15 pm
Minneapolis, MN
MSP - 05:44 pm
It's been a good day to reflect... this photo is from a few weeks ago but one of my favorite:
(04) Tuesday
Hung out with "Response Kate"
Had a few beers in the Millennium park hiding under the stage as the rain fell in wave after wave.
(05) Wednesday
Well the day consisted of a whole lotta nothing. Perfectly santo.
I managed to attempt selling my airtight dry box to cole with dehumidifer but only after dropping the dehumidifier and spilling out some of the silica putting it back together and convincing him it was not in fact broken so was I then forced to toss in an extra 50 dollars worth of items in order to extract 40 bucks for the 80 dollar drybox and dehumidifier. woohoo I get to eat couple more days without using my credit card which no one will except.
Besides that not much else... I put in my notice to Kensley but he was not there to sign it... he was down somewhere in south santo. Maybe tomorrow. fingers crossed.
And I cancelled my internet for starting tomorrow... woohoo no more bills for the worst internet service on the planet: Digicel Vanuatu.
(06) Thursday
5:00 am
I just woke up to a pretty vivid dream and when i woke my room was unexpectedly pitch black (no blue light from my speaker noise drowner outer) and silent (no constraint noise suppression from endlessly looping itunes music) and no fans buzzing back and forth... shit lost my power hmm... well figured it might get cut... so i sat there for a moment to catch my breathe because the dream was wild. I was some kind of magical creature sort of like a like a wolf but one that could run fast enough to fly and there were two others with me crossing back and forth like ribbons in a jetstream of wind. Our long furry tails whipping around and then once we reached a certain spot in this river basin we all three stopped running and I rose up into the air and did something in a blur or motion that caused a spell to be cast and a burst of light hit a the distance cloud and a rain shower of flowers came pouring down and moved towards us passing over at a rapid rate to then douse us all in a deluge of brightly colored flower petals. Felt pretty cool casting a spell in my dream. The other two creatures did other spells of some sort but the last one wolf-creature, casted a darkness spell that cut out all light from the sun, all the heat as well, and sound and a feeling deep dread like fog drifted over me and i feel like i could not breathe... thats when i woke up choking in the darkness.
8:50 am
I read a silly article in the Independant newspaper... about the malo project. They call me a BISHOP... what? I am a Peace Corps not a Catholic religious leader. And the Basko guy and Sale the work man sounds like they did all the work. Pretty funny.
2:30pm
Nothing to do... you can see that be the less busy I get the more I tend to write to kill the time. I tried sleeping for the last three days for 10 or more hours and then reading. But after doing that for many days on end my body is getting sore from lack of exercise. I figured going to Attar and using the internet now that mine is finally dead was the best move possible.
I was at Wally's earlier today trying to sell off my last remaining items... hope he buys some. I am not dead broke but pretty close to it.
(07) Friday
Had an amazing going away night... nothing planned which is perfect.
couple photos for fun:
Hung out with Bryan and hunt for Independent weekly newspaper because there was that horribly written news story about the opening of the computer lab at Nandiutu... we fond one but also these delicious flying foxes... yumyum... time to make soup huh:
After that Bryan found this jersey and later I took a photo in my nasty dirty house wearing my old joke of a jersey I bought last year for a gag party.
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Went to Aqua and had some drinks with my fav crew in santo:
Daria was wearing an elephant dress
Bryan and kate making some funny faces:
Wally and his kid post arm wrestling kiki:
(08) Saturday
going away speggit party:
(09) Sunday
Just landed in Vila and updating blog and such after some something to eat... not sure what though. in 5 short days I will be back home. Can't wait.
Last prop plane ride back to Vila... and now its just wait till the end and go home: see the plane on the horizon near the clouds?
