Week 22 - Last week of break.

August 25-31

 (25) Monday -

We went over to Candi's house and there was a great little dinner party. They had spring-roll style make your own wraps, with that super sticky strong but thin spring-roll material using hot water it then transforms from a plastic disc into a usable wrap. Thinking too much about that a bit too much. It was tasty, inside was carrots, and cabbage or might have been lettuce, some noodles and sauce and tomatoes... good food. THere was cake, and candy (I brought those because I forgot to buy the cookie dough, DOH.) Hm.. I think that was it. We hung out with Candi's boyfriend and had a small chat... He is Scottish pretty funny.


Dennis crashed at my place and we watched movies and joked around all night.


 (26) Tuesday - I think this is the Day Dennis went to Millenium caves. I just hung out at the house pretty much all day. Then he and I watched movies... Rick and Morty, Zombieland, some zoolander. Great night.

Mr. Dennis make a great factoid about how people drop much of the proper pronunciation of words by dropping the T ad the end of words with no vowel before the t usually making a "de" sound instead. Pretty funny, seems kind of right.

 (27) Wednesday - Three days almost four with no internet, means I fell behind in my blog. I will try and backfill starting from today, at 6:03pm. Well when it went down i tried a bonehead idea, use the reset feature and put it back to factory defaults and start from scratch. I never had the right password to get authorized by digicel, so that basically killed all hopes to reconnect.

 Dennis took off today. Made some oatmeal pancakes, his idea, pretty damn good... We watched A Fish called wanda. He liked it as one should... great movie. He learned 1979 and got the tab and lyrics down. Success number two because that is an excellent song and has had some long staying power of listening appeal for me and if that in part means now others are reminded of this fact then great.

 After Dennis left I worked in the lab updating all the PC's applying security patches and so on... making sure everything was running smoothly. I would I am about 90% percent done, have to finish tomorrow. Went into town... got some EGGS... BAM. 12 of them!!! That is a huge score during an egg shortage. And some bacon and hamburger meat and bread, plus a magnum ice cream original bar, that was a great purchase too.
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Now I can go forward, at 6:39pm, I remember running into Mike Hawkings as I got groceries...
Then Mike looking over my purchases said, "I'm never feeling sorry for you going broke again... Dam... 12 eggs, Meat..." Something like that... which is totally right. I know...
I admit my most recurring weakness is food. I can't help it. I never have been so hungry for my food back home in all my life. I think my body is still in shock that I have to prepare most of what I eat as well. But I am better a little bit every month. I no longer get ice cream on the weekends and I only bought ready-whip once.

 Then I had digicel come over and fix my internet, and hence this new posting. Yeah I used the word hence. I feel it is a fun word very under used so I am trying to help bring it back. Ok first updating going now.. then working on backfilling other posts.

 (28) Thursday -
Today I got to skype with folks... ate some pancakes... and bacon so good. My mom was upset about my brothers ex wife. But my mom is getting really good at setting some rules and not getting pushed around. Thankful for that.

Today I hope to help Samantha build some shelves. So we are going to Santo Hardware or Wilco and get some lumber then put together some shelves.

We just had a really big earthquake, biggest I ever felt... made my house shake, microwave almost fell off the fridge. I had a hard time standing. It was pretty wild. I called Rich and just wanted to see if he felt it too... he said What earthquake paused for a second then laughed, saying it was the largest he felt. That now we wait to see if there will be a tsunami warning.


 (29) Friday -
Baby docs are having a going away party at aqua... but they invited me to go to an island and hangout for the day. I am going to miss them.
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So I went to Aore Island. It was great. The baby docs that went were: Patrica, Nina, Vikki, Jo, George, Danny.

I took some photos:

It was their going away day as well. Most are going to board a plane tomorrow and return to their university in Leeds...

Oh few more photos when we landed and walked past the WW2 buildings.

There was a get together at Deco Stop for happy hour. I went home from the beach and then changed and headed over to meet them. We all talked and ate some happy hour apps... it was great. I think they went out to Aqua but I was mostly too broke to go so I headed home.

 (30) Saturday -
Spent a couple hours cleaning and slowly waking up.

After getting supplies and things in town I got word from my friend Sigrid Burg. She's from Holland and first mate on a small ship working on environmental projects like removing crown of thorns from the reefs, and her friend Michael a Polish guy that also working the ship. They have been stranded here in luganville on their way to the Solomon Islands, because their ship's pumps are damaged and it has some leaks in the hull as well. I invited them over to my grilling party. We planned to meet in town at Attar Cafe. I went there and sat with Jes for a bit, she was drowning in VAN AM submissions... a good problem she says. When she left I just walked up and down the sidewalk waiting. So I saw a fish stand and asked to see them. They seemed like pretty cool people so i started helping them sell off their fish, mostly walking dancing and yelling FISH FISH FISH... and 30 minutes later they were pretty much sold out of fish. They offered me a piece of Shark as thank you... I just said I had fun selling their fish.

Then Sigrid showed up and we walked towards my site. We stopped at the Daming Store and they bought a half kilo of mince meat, Sigrid and Mike wanted some beer and a ice cream bar so I took off on my bike and sent them in the direction of my school... and grabbed her some VB's and Magnum ice cream. I even beat them to my school and we just chilled and watched some Rick and Morty. I think of Rick and Morty as a measuring stick these days, those that laugh at it, and those that don't. I prefer those who find that humor funny.

After a bit Rich showed up and Bryan and Kate, Jes, Mike Stafford... and the grilling was in full swing. I prepped the onions and the potatoes and started toasting the buns. Then I mixed up the meat and made the patties but Bryan was the grillmaster last night... he did a great job.

We played Apples to Apples after (not sure why the font changed don't care)

How I did not win that game and Bryan did is a mystery. Then due to Jes's persistent request I popped on a Chick Flick on the Projector, the Rocket. We only made it about 30 minutes into the movie before everyone was too tired to endure the rest of that stressful movie. (Oh Jes never really asked for a movie that is a joke in case she ever reads this blog... and the movie was definitely not a chick flick.)

That was about it... I stayed up a few more hours and played Faster Than Light and beat the big boss... pretty epic and I unlocked a new ship the Federation Cruiser. Missing Mr. Dennis because he would have stayed up until 1 or 2am like me. I wish I had a drum set... maybe next year. If I can't smash walls and build crap at the soap factory, I wish I had a drum kit to hit on.

 (31) Sunday -
The dogs... I am getting pretty sick of them here. They bark all the time at night. I was lucky for a while there seemed to be zero around... but now a pack moved in. I saw one limping around when I tossed my trash, if that is the one that was behind all the crazy barking I hope he shuts it tonight. I got a good hour of sleep. Less than my average 4 hours. I feel ok though. I might try and sleep now except the neighbors are scrubbing clothing... probably one of the worst noises is the sound of SHHH-SHH-SHH for 4 hours. Makes me wish I could turn off my ears like the volume on my laptop, so instead I just crank music to blow away all the noise.

It's Sunday... man Sundays in Luganville suck. There is nothing to do. All the shops are closed and nobody does anything interesting. So Good time to blog or clean up the mess from the party last night. Mostly done with that, getting the grease off the cook surface is a pain. I don't have a steel brush yet. I need one badly.

There was another earthquake at 2:18pm... about a 4.5 huh... you can see these as the happen here: http://earthquaketrack.com/p/vanuatu/recent

Watched Harry Potter maybe I miss the baby docs...or whatever. But I just had a small coke float and since all the ice cream which was not much was starting to melt (and no ice cream last in my fridge for more than one day) I decided to share the majority of what was left of that ice cream with my Ni-van neighbors kids... they smiled more than I have seen them in a very long time. They never have had a coke float in their whole lives or even heard of them. That was pretty fun to see them happy.

Week 21 - Everyone is on the road except us.

Aug 18-24

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(18) Monday -  

It is 3:17 am and the roosters are going nuts as usual and then the waves of annoying dogs join in the choir. So many stupid roosters, and dogs, 20 of them at least... barking their brains out until you wish that they would all just die... So I figured I would blog a minute and set up the post for the week.

I changed the style again because all these blogspot themes sort of suck and now my older posts have a weird text highlight that looks funny. Maybe I will fix it more like I will just ignore it. I want to try and frame my bed today. I needed the school circular saw to make the frame nice and square. I tried using my handheld one but it was a bit crooked. 

I am sort of dreading this week since I will have to deal with the cult people all week but oh well.

OK now its 4:20 am and the extremists are going at it hard core chanting... maybe someone died or something, there was alarms going off and the whole compound is in an uproar. I walked around no signs of what went down.

No one died. They wake up at 4:00am to chase demons. But they are harmless just really loud and non-stop guess its only a week. I can mostly ignore it.

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Hours later after trying to sleep like 5 more times. I woke up and got the two stainless steel brackets to mount the murphy bed... and build the frame. I have yet to mount it to the wall I need a concrete drill that is floating around somewhere at my school. Check out these photos:

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(19) Tuesday - Randomly went to a cave / river near Jessica's site south Santo. I forget the name of her village. Oh wait I see her on facebook I will ask. Narango. The village is called Narango.... very beautiful place.

The trip out there took about an hour by truck, and it was way further away from town than I have been before, when we drove past AndbloCulter (or however you spell it) that was the furthest away I was from town... That is a nokemal... a kava bar.

The driver brought us all the way up this giant hill and the view was amazing. Rich took some photos, I left my camera at home because they said there was a river and there was, that we'd walk through and I did not want to destroy my equipment. I wish I had a gopro or some waterproof camera. Kicking myself.

The reason we visited was to see this HUGE sinkhole. It was an inadequate description or my lack of sinkhole experience makes that imagined place not look at all like what it was. The area of the hole was like the mall of america and it dropped into the ground maybe a hundred or two hundred feet. There was a narrow semi dangerous path that leads down into the ravine and eventually you hit a stream. We followed that to a waterfall and cave. Where we swam and took photos and I ate. The cave was pretty big. I could not see much of it since we did not bring torches. Maybe another time. Luckily the did not even charge us for the visit or it would have been like 15 bucks or so. But we are all broke so 15 is  lot of money here.

We left about 3 and starting walking down the huge hill towards the main road. Molly, Rich and I... Rich was his animated self saying stuff life put our faith in him because the lord will guide him and therefor us. He is hilarious. I think Molly heard this bit of his a few hundred times so she got way ahead of us to ignore it.

So we made our way past a place called Tata... a small school/village guess there was a G24'er that served at that site and we found a guy willing to drive us into town. The driver I think his name was Peter... a Nivan. He attended my college in 1989... pretty cool guy. We had a debate about politics and other such things... it was fun talking with him. He wanted to know what I think would be a great way to improve Vanautu. I said a lot of ideas some involving how the government should consider a program to sponsor Nivan's opening their own small shops versus all the SHIT chinese stores that are dominating the markets if the town has a market. That and finding ways to export their food goods because they have amazing farms if only they could get some trade partners and well it was a long conversation.

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(20) Wednesday - Today I helped work on installing new mosquito net in the dorms at my college. Very time consuming work. I did that for about 5 hours. and I was lucky enough to get concrete paint so I can finally paint my computer lab with legit material and reduce the amount of filth that gets sucked into the computers.

Most people are playing ultimate frisbee today at 4 but I am not. I just don't feel like running around in the mud after a long day of working.

I forget so many details in these entries but what I want to try and capture is the odd things not the common stuff. Example there was a mini earthquake this morning probably like a 3 or 4 tiny just jolted my house... but right when it happened I woke up from a dream, a muscle-bound-moron from my high school, John Guilder, just shoved me out of my bunk bed at Timber Bay (a work camp for juvenile delinquents or volunteers like me) it took me a moment to snap out of it.

OR anther example... During the construction of the screen windows at the dormitory, we took the normal hour and a half lunch and sleep. Before they all feel asleep, Nivan workmen and I, all sat around the compound and started joked around.

Well more accurately they joked around with me. I am as most know from hearing me try, pretty bad at speaking Bislama, which is likely why they enjoy asking me questions at random like: is it a number one or number two... or zero zero? I never know why that is so funny but what they are asking is if I have one ball or two or none at all. They are always trying to make repeats absurd crap I know is most likely something about sex, or mutilation or anything they deem as gross or whatever. I don't really care, none of it makes me upset, it just is tiresome to participate in.

They love jokes about castration, or if I am big nabus or small (if I would wear a large penis shaft or small one) and homosexuality is always waiting to be dropped into one of Dickenson's persistent rants of questioning, and other things of this sort. I attempt to ignore it as much as possible but more often than not I just sit there and hope we can get back to work as quickly as possible.

  

(21) Thursday - 

I managed to drowned out the noise last night playing my music (thankful that I have mainline power) and slept decent and I did not even notice the kids running around speaking in tongues and chasing demons around the campus in the middle of the night. It was the first night in a week I slept.

with a little luck I can return to finishing the bed and soon sleep on a full bed instead of these tiny kid beds I have been sleeping on for 8 months. So excited.

OK... I managed to frame the bed. Just not going to mount it to the wall until next week or wait until i get the drill "chuck" for the concrete bit. Mr. Dennis Came to Santo, and there was a New Zealand "Kiwi" Singer at the Youth Center performing, And the babby Docs had a going away party for Dhara... Dhara is great. I am going to miss her. I joined the Peace Corps crew that is in town for a quick minute at the Kava Bar, they like Kava. I am not a big fan so i just mostly hung out with them ditching the concert scene for a half hour, then we went back the baby docs disappeared, I watched Hunter and Dennis go on stage and adHoc perform with the band. then I too took off to go to the Baby Doc Mansion first time I saw that. Pretty nice place. It is located behind the hospital. They have a book with all the previous baby docs notes in it. We took some photos, and Simon sent on to Amanda from the previous baby doc group... heh. Hope she likes that. They made all kinds of great food, some ground beef sort of like spaghetti with sauce and onions and we put that over some bread and they gave me a tusker. Then we had this awesome cake. We listened to Dhara talk about her high's and low's of her few weeks in town. She is a diver. She went to the SS President Coolidge like 10 times. Pretty impressive. It is a WWII ship that sank close to shore in 1941 or so. This is a cool video: Diving on the SS President Coolidge July 09 - YouTube Guess her (Dhara) low point was this one new born baby had some problems and the doctor said that it was low on life power so they did not want to give it the proper medicine to save it... She or they protested and demanded it be given medicine... which they did and it survived... but it might have serious brain damage now. That is pretty shitty of an experience. I am probably doing a sub-par job of retelling this but that is the jist of the story though. Then Dennis called and he joined the party... we talked about peace corps experiences they got kind of quiet it was getting late... and I sensed it was time to hit the road so we took off Dennis and I and watched some Rick and Morty at my place and crashed. It was a rad day.

(22) Friday -

Nathan had a short layover in Santo... I went into town and met him at Attar Cafe and we got some potatoes and mince meat and tomatoes and headed to my place to make some lunch and BS for a few hours. We watched uh... Neighbors. Did not complete the movie but he can watch it later. Then we walked back into town and he caught a bus and headed to the airport. But he forgot his cell phone at my house so he had to take the bus back to my school then go back to the airport. Tonight ... hm bet we go to Aqua and dance and carry on. I will go but I hate wasting money at a bar for mediocre drinks. So we met at Sam's and went to club aqua... the dancing was mostly lame, since it is not a local paycheck week it was mostly just a handful of people and some really boring music. So people started to thin out and soon it was only Dennis and I standing standing around. So we wandered the streets and Dennis insisted on seeing the other bar in town called Club de Santo. I warned him not to go in because the place is 99% percent drunk Nivan men with a bad reputation for getting into fights over nothing. It is almost the Mos Eisley cantina in Star wars. So Dennis so I know know... and like a lure being cast into the sea... he waded through a shoulder to shoulder, mob of Ni-van's standing around, then he attempted to get around the pool table mostly failing, as he bounced around like a pinball. Then he made a charge to the middle of the small opening that might been the dance floor, moved his arms around above his head (he's very tall 6'4" and gilligan skinny) and maybe he did a slowly half spin around once. When he opened his eyes it was like he saw a great unpleasantness, no no... more like impending doom of nothing appealing at all, he desperately made his way for the door. I think he then saw me standing at the door entrance laughing, halfway in the door, and he very seriously said to me" lets go, That was horrible." I almost died laughing. It was pretty hilarious. Then he said, "There were fifty men... no women. I was prepared to be disappointed by the club scene in Santo, I heard about it, and so I lowered my expectations... but that experience, Whew... I don't think I lowered my expectations enough."

We drifted around the streets again... ran into a kid for a bit and he showed a place to sit and chill. We were supposed to meet up with him the next day but we never did. I told him that we'd probably forget... that it was not to mean to him that we did not like him, sometimes locals might be offended if you skip on them.

Then Dennis said we have to try that club one more time. I was shocked he wanted to give that place a second shot. I said no it's just going to suck again. But he insisted. So we went and it was identical to the first description of him going in, getting creeped out, then bolting for the door like dear life was at stake. It was almost as funny as the first time.

So after those shenanigans, we headed to my place where I introduced Dennis to Rick and Morty... it was a very fun even though i had watched episodes 1-11 a dozen times it is still great to repeat the lines of that show, "hundred time over, Rick and Morty(R&M) dot com, hundred days R&M, hundred times... all day, dot com www.rickandmorty.com hundred years all the time, just running around having adventures with Rick and MOrty www, hundred times." Ok you get the drift.

(23) Saturday -

Anyway... Dennis headed over to my place, after asking if he could, I said sure. Then we went into town walked around trying to find something interesting to do... this town does not have much open or going on when Sunday's roll around.

We ran into Thomas from G21. He's a dude that served in the Peace corps, seven years ago and then extended, then moved here, then got married to a Nivan and had two kids. We struck up a conversation and Dennis asked him what there is to do here... and then we got invited to go to this beach with him, Plencant, I don't recall the name it is something like that. We walked slowly up to Sam's house and loaded up on supplied water, snacks, drinks, suntan oil... and took a trip to the beach. It was a great time, the water was perfect so many different patches blue and Turquoise and green. It is like a rainbow in the water and the sun and waves but ok... the fun part was all the great and goofy songs Dennis played. I attempted ot be a percussionist using the bed of the truck as a drum set until I my hand starting hurting from bangin on the steel truck bed. Then I found some sticks. This one tiny car load of white tourist showed up to our beach right in the middle of our concert for Thomas, his wife and sister in law, and his two pikinini (kids), they rolled up their windows and swiftly did a u-turn and retreated from the camp site. Not everyone is impressed with our musical stylings but Dennis thought it was the funniest thing.

So then Mr. Thomas posed a small challenge to me, to swim out to the sailboat that was anchored close by, maybe a football field or two from shore. The current was going out to sea. So we did a pass around the boat and spoke the french captain who was sitting on board at the helm. The white people that came out to the beach might have been friends with the boat's skipper, they were like 60ish white silver and white hair.

Going back to shore was much much harder, but the sea water here is so salty that you float so easily that it is not hard to conserve energy. We spotted the white kids that were on the beach further down. We saw them earlier but was not sure of they were at a friends house or what. But on the way in I decided to walk over and see who they were. It was Jo, Nina, Vikki, Danny and I introduced them to Dennis but he was so busy playing splash the Nivan 3 year old with water he barely even remembers the baby docs on the beach.

(24) Sunday -

Well Just waking up now... blogging about the two last days... (I know the syntax and grammar of this blog are so far from perfect, a million typos and rules being ignored blatantly but if I want to capture the ideas and the things that are going on in my head as the happen I just have to sacrifice something in order to capture the thought before i forget them. I can clean up the words after there is a moment to do so. And as you might be able to tell the way I write is basically an extension of the way I speak.) Ok spent an hour and a half writing this blog stuff today. I should get going and do something. Ate a great hamburger though.

Held a really great girlling party, as a going away for Kelsey and Jen Nadler... made hamburgers with toasted buns, nice ripe tomatoes, tomato sauce, grilled onion, mayo optional, with idaho style potatoes from New Zealand, and Dennis made a crazy punch, and I had candy as usual for then finis... it was fun, I think everyone was happy... Sam, Mike H, Mike S., Kate, Bryan, Rich, Dennis, Jen, Kelsey... Hunter was with his girlfriend for sure, Jes was at the TOT. I had my old school music playlist going and it was decently received.

Week 20 - million dollar point

Week TWENTY -  Ratua/Malo and Lab building

Aug 11-17

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(11) Monday -  Start building Murphy Bed... Now I have the supplied except the wall brackets which
Might be a little tricky. I either find a way to weld some metal together or buy a pre-made metal plate and bracket I found at this one hardware store. Each metal piece is roughly 80 bucks. I need two. So OUch on expense but it will look so rad a bed that folds up and on the back side I will have a dart board. Making the "bedroom" into a lounge.
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(12) Tuesday - Worked on the school's website.

(13) Wednesday - Took more photos around the school and posted them on their website.
                             Trying to get someone at the school to add content
                              to: http://collegeluganville.wix.com/santo

(14) Thursday - Get a mattress for my new bed I am building.
                         Ok I actually got one... 160 dollars for a mediocre foam thing but shit its light and a double mattress so I can continue making my frame now... and if the workman returns next Monday I will get the concrete drill back and sink in a few bolts to

(15) Friday - I was not very happy most of the day.. not sure why. But the baby docs invited me over to their place for dinner and it was nice. I was glad I went though.
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(16) Saturday - I hung out with the baby docs... we went to million dollar point, then swung by Candi's place and ate some fabulous food... kidded around about many silly things I just like their strange words that occasionally pop up like, courgette and aubergine I think it sounds like a great band name: Courgette aubergine... and the album we came up with would be called Gecko Scream.

I spoke with Annie... on skype, Mary too.. It started with a conversation with my parents first... I do this all backwards but that is how memory works most recent first then work your way backwards.

I feel badly about my friends news... she was very upset. I wonder if things do not change by the morning. Maybe.

Oh here are some photos:

 

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(17) Sunday - There was a tiny nudge in the sleep cycle, I felt it happen almost before it happened, I thought hm... it is very quiet I heard maybe a very slight rumble, then thought OH earthquake coming and then it hit, my house made a few shifting around noises and it felt like being shoved a couple times with a very subtle pulse or two of nudges and then its over... and you, (well I do for sure) wait a few moments for a big jolt but it doesn't. That was 5am.

There are some strange ass noises outside this morning... it could be an animal but what I have no clue... it was a rhythmical sort of chanting sounds which makes me think it had to have been a person, a crazy one but still a person. Why in the F* they were howling like that at 5:30am is a mystery. Maybe they believe the earthquake is a demonic possession of the ground and they needed to cast it out. Who knows. Yeah now they are screaming... weird ass shit.

Yeah they are singing now... AhhhahhhAhhh Ahhhahhhahhh ... EEEEeee... eeeEEEE. so annoying. But for them i am sure it is critical or the island will fall into the sea or something.
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So later that day these sort of cultish folks set up shop at my school... very strange. They are all speaking in tongues and their leader is like this loud super loud drill sergeant woman that makes them repeat her like orders and they chant the same stuff over and over.

It was really odd seeing them all take over my school and putting beds and whatnot in the classrooms. So lucky me I get to listen to these sudo religious people act weird all week. 

week 19 - Building bed, bought grill, made screen door

week 19  Aug 4-10

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(04) Monday -  I FINALLY GOT LUMBER TO BUILD A BED. I have not started though. 

I went into town and got material to make the screen door... a less daunting task. We play ultimate frisbee again as usual... but it was a much smaller group than usual... and I think everyone was a bit out of energy it was a harder game than usual it seemed... almost like it was played uphill and I remember losing sight of the disc because the sun was setting and right at disc height in the sky only occasionally blocked by clouds. Huge disadvantage if you were on sun blinded side. 

(05) Tuesday - Woke up late and started blogging... I should try and frame the screen door today. Once the door is up it will allow a constant stream of ocean breezes into my living room. But I am afraid to built it because the way my door is constructed I have a dilemma of a choice to make... put the screen door on tightly fitting next to main door... a properly attached choice but if I do that then the screen door will not open 180 degree but only 90 degrees... I hesitate on this because I have a mountain bike I bring inside my house at night to prevent it from being stolen... so because it moves inside and out so frequently, if the door only opens 90 degrees it will be annoying to haul my bike in and out. This means I am forced to consider making spacers and positioning the way I mount the door to the wall so that it opens 180 degrees. This too had a problem. By adding what I call spacers will cause a gap around the top of the door allowing bugs to fly into the house. This is a bad thing. So I might be able to put a cover over the top of the door but it will look ugly and make the whole operation more of a pain in the ass. Or maybe I can make the door have a top section built into it. That way I won't have to put concrete screws into the wall to make the cover. This might require a photo to explain what I am talking about. Perhaps after I finish building it I will post one.

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I built part of my screen door and I also purchased a grill. The grill is awesome. I hope it gets a ton of use and makes life better. Seems like a few PC's were excited about it.

(06) Wednesday - Not sure what this day will involve... Isabelle from Ratua island had some late breaking news about power grants for Malo island. I would like to run out there and build a power quote with someone and eat at Ratua island but I am not really sure how to arrange such a trip.

And if I go out there then I won't be able to fix my screen door and prepare for the baby doc's coming to my movie night on Thursday... unless I build the door in the morning and focus energy on that all day.

Alright... another wierd day in Luganville.

I was working on my screen door at 6am when my principal came by to ask me to go to see the cruise ship and see if I could drum up some tourism biz for fundraising for the school... I did not realize that entailed me acting as tour guide for Ozzies... heh but that failed to happen after there was several yelling matches with rival tourism companies whom were very angry to see a 34 seat bus pull into the lineup. The cops stepped in and they prevented us from going because the driver did not have a proper license.

Then I went home and finished some more work on the screen door. Weird day.

(07) Thursday - Worked on screen door, and nearly finished with it just have to sink it into the wall.
Had the baby docs over and we grilled and watched the movie Neighbors. Had a great time. Dropped off the power quote.

(08) Friday - Busy day, Put the screen door into the wall, put the mirror up on my bathroom wall. Going to have another movie night for Jen N. not sure what we will watch. Dropped off water quote for Katie Peckler, and sent a photo of the power quote for Malo island to Isabelle.

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(09) Saturday - Did a whole lot of nothing most of the day. But I have a login to Alma Student Info System. What a rad school tool.

At 3am I had hit and miss skype session with Ms. Mary Krotz.

(10) Sunday - It is raining and we were planning to go to Manavulu Blue hole with visiting Peace Corps Vol, Jen N and the santo Bike gang but not sure if the rain is killing that plan. So for now I will crank some Alice in Chains and internet. Made it far in Faster Than Light video game. Woot.

week 19 - Extra post of Champagne Beach

Went with StarBar, Mike Hawkins, Jes, Hunter, MIke Stafford, Maureen, Allison and myself.