[week 18] July 28 - Aug 3
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(28) Monday - Ultimate frisbee for sure but not sure what else.
Maybe I can actually order lumber to make a bed.
(29) Tuesday - work on website?
(30) Wednesday - DEMO SIS software. Independence Celebration. StarBar Came to town.
(31) Thursday - I officially get older... yeah happy birthday
(01) Friday - Laura and Allison leave.
(02) Saturday - Baby-doc movie time
(03) Sunday - not sure.
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Monday -
Met with Isabelle and got estimates for parts and such to make things. Busy day. Spoke with my parents via Skype.
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Tuesday-
Very productive day, I went to get estimates for Katie Peckler for her water treatment system at her school, went and got estimates for building a murphy bed / screen door for my house. Went to the hospital to pickup my lost credit card that disappeared last friday they made a radio commercial to find it... still laughing about that. Then I went to Malo and Ratua island as viewed a site for a internet cafe I am going to help build here are some photos. Oh Isabelle wined and dined me too... the food was fabulous, chicken, pasta, fabulous cake, some kind of white russian drink... I was overwhelmed... Barely made it home on the 45 minute boat ride in the pitch black ocean.
Malo Island... and a work site for a computer lab
Ratua Island / resort... best best hotel in all of Vanuatu... Beautiful beyond words.
We landed on this grass field in that little plane to be greeted by two WWII jeeps that look in perfect shape like the war in the pacific is still raging.
Resort with imported indonesian wood that was going to be scrap wood has a second life in Ratua even if it is being eaten up by carpenter ants... So pretty freaking cool art work too.
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Malo School room that we will attempt to turn into a computer library.
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Isabelle and the principle at this school in Malo. We are looking at the potential site for the computer lab.
Possible Peace corps House if they finish building it
An ancient Power generator... this tank should be replaced.
Not sure what I captured except it looks like a face in the smoke.
They made me this amazing drink
Water Dancing, the sound of it is pretty cool, they are just using the water as an instrument.
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Wednesday-
Independence day. We went to the park walked around. I was not feeling it so I left.
I had a demo early in the day for a SIS (Student information system from Alma) They are going to help my school set this up. The system is amazingly cool and IT IS FREE... Amazing.
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Thursday 31st-
Work up at 5:31 am to listen to a really heavy rain storm. Sounds so fierce when rain is hitting a tin roof. So for my birthday I went to Hotel Nemo and had a pizza, got a haircut at headhunter barber shop, hang out with Mr. Mike and went to andbloculter nokemal not sure how to spell it, watched the sunset... met up with other peace corps at waterfront then went home and slept.
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Friday - Aug 01
Today hope... get lumber for making stuff and paint for the lab floor so I can do some shit at my school... and trying to find a way to buy a grill so i can cook some decent food. But no place in town has a credit card reader so they will look into getting one.
Trying to get my principle to ok the license agreement for using ALMA SIS (student information system) then I can set it up and use it to record grades and other things the school want to do.
Finally got a ton of white pine... so I can make my crazy murphy bed.
Should have probably hungout with starbar and the others but I just had no motivation to spend the paltry pay on 5 dollar junk beers.
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Saturday -
Sunday
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