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American Samoa Slideshow
Samoa
Travel Blogs from Samoa
Off to Ofu
... In all the time I spent just sitting on this beach and looking out I thought to myself, "For six years I have been dreaming of Samoa, and this is exactly what I was waiting for." I resolved to come back the next morning for sunrise photos. After a ...
Yesterday was really sad but i'm going to ...
Yesterday was really sad, but I'm going to have to start with the night before. Friday night was our fiafia, or farewell party. Everyone from the 2 villages was present except for the select few who stayed behind to watch over the house. In my family, ...
Living the beach life
... . One guy described it as smoked coconut? It did not look appetizing though. There are tons of animals in Samoa! Chickens everywhere, including roosters that cock-a-doodle-doo all the time, including early in the morning. There are horses tied up ...
New Year's Tropical Style
... We spent the afternoon talking, drinking Vailima, swimming and snorkeling and relaxing. We met a air traffic controller from American Samoa who is originally from Kentucky. Really interesting guy to talk to and very generous with the beer. Dinner ...
Tsunami destroys the island
Hello everyone. I know it's been a very long time since my last entry, and a lot has happened here. I made a different entry talking about the tsunami in an effort to split up all that’s occurred. I wrote most of the following 4 or 5 ...
1\2 Day Tour, Cave Pool & Falls
... of equipment that helped us get back safely to bed at 11pm. This is the first night that we have lasted this long. SAMOA FACTS LEARNT TODAY FROM OUR GUIDE Most Samoans are buried in their front gardens on their families land. Fresh flowers most days on ...
Change in Name
During my first morning in Samoa, we began training. What a morning! Completely jet-lagged with only about four hours of sleep but completely excited, our trainers got started immediately. First task: Renaming us. We were all handed name tags. ...
Samoa - A week in the sun!
... and having only realised 4 hours before the flight was due to leave, we frantically packed and headed for the airport! Samoa is a very relaxed, friendly country. The beaches and scenery were excellent, well worth a visit. Observations - The ...
I would never use flip flops for the things ...
I would never use flip flops for the things I use them for here. Today I went to Sliding Rock with Lauryl, Bronwin, and Debbi. We took the taxi there, and he waited for us. Samoans go out of their way to please you here. I'm still getting used to ...
Another going away party
Our friend Peti decided to have a going away party for us. She made chicken pot pies and we got a few coolers full of Vailima, the big boys, and the little ones. The big ones being 40oz of 6.7% beer. They will put you down quick. ...
Some of you may think that i am living in a ...
... flights into Samoa from the US every week. It may have changed recently, as Air New Zealand added a direct flight from Tonga-Samoa. When I first arrived, however, there was the one flight by Air New Zealand from Los Angeles direct to Samoa. The other ...
Finding our feet on our first day
... . Visited Aggie Greys, the most famous hotel in Samoa. She was a very priviledged woman with rich husband and known throughout Samoa but her husbands business collapsed and overnight they were penniless with 4 children. Her husband went to pieces (well he ...
It's now official i've been sworn in as a ...
... and local foods, tonight is a parade, tomorrow is a fire dancing show. The festivities last all week, culminating with the Miss Samoa pageant on Saturday. The girlfriend of one of the Peace Corps volunteers here is a contestant in the show, and some of ...
In memory of TimTam
... ended up painting a world map, an oceana map and a Samoa map at the primary school. The secondary school got a world map and a Samoa map. Turns out the maps use less paint than I thought. I think we can paint a map at every school in ...
Samoa - teist korda 29. veebruar
... olema nii prestiizne, et turult ei lahkutagi - seal magatakse ning hoitakse iga hinna eest oma kättevõideldud kohast kinni. Samoa tundub Fiji kõrval oluliselt troopilisem ja oma väiksuse ja kompaktsuse tõttu ka justkui ilusam - kogu maantee kulgeb ...
Hurricanes, Heat, and Samoans trying to run fast
It's been a busy couple of months since I last updated the blog. Right after I last wrote I began coaching track and field, which was a very interesting experience. At first, I was the only coach, and had a very motley crew of athletes. On ...
Today was my favorite training day so far ...
... this evening when I was able to pack everything back up in less than an hour. It must have taken 100x that to pack up for Samoa. Tomorrow morning at 10 am we leave for our training village of Utulaelae. I'll be stuck there for a week without anyone to ...
3.5 weeks in
... to stop giving me and my roomates our stipend each month, but to throw the entire group of volunteers out of American Samoa. My roomates and I were not happy with the decision, as the contract the Department of Education signed gives them absolutely ...
Ein bisschen Fidschi - ein bisschen Samoa
... aus Freundlichkeit und Interesse begründet. Heute geht es für mich dann in einem der bunt bemalten Busse, die hier auf Samoa verkehren (siehe auch das entsprechende Foto), an die Südküste der Hauptinsel 'Upolu. Dort werde ich in einer sogenannten ...
Resume Language
Well, it is that time here in Samoa. All ministries within the government are developing their three-year plan for development and structure. What this means for me is a heavy dose of resume writing for the last two weeks. A couple of Thursdays ago, ...
samoa
... j ai la belle vie mais aussi incapable de souhaiter un joyeux anniversaire par telephone.. ca m a ennerve.. bref mis a part ca samoa sont deux iles magnifiques.. la premiere ile ou je suis arrive avec la capitale... ressemble un peu a l ile ...
Samoa August 28, 2007
Hey everyone (surely there is at least someone back home that is checking our blog, right?)! Hope all is well back in Canada, and that all of our former co-workers at LCHS and Toothsuite Family Dentistry are doing well! I'm sure ...
Der Garten Eden
... durcheinandergewirbelt! Wir fliegen am 5. Juni um 22 Uhr in Tonga ab und landen nach eineninhalb Stunden Flug um halb zwoelf nachts in Samoa - allerdings einen Tag frueher, am 4. Juni. Ob das jetzt derselbe 4. Juni ist, den wir schon mal erlebt haben, ...
From The Cradle of Polynesia
... is hard to pick a favourite, each country and each island has given us so much, but if forced we would have to plump for Samoa. There is something really special about this country. It is not just the beauty of the landscape (and seascape) as we have seen ...
One week in
... guess I'll start out with where the heck I am (since I had no idea before I signed up for the program). American Samoa is a group of islands about 14 degrees south of the equator and right next to the international date line. I'll be teaching ...
Sunny Samoa
... a massive reef only 10 metres out into the sea. Finally we had to say goodbye, we were both pretty shocked at how beautiful Samoa was. We originally just planned it in as a final week of sun but it offered so much more with it's fantastic people and ...
Winter Wonderland
... keer), en als ik buiten een ommetje maak hoor ik gejuich. Nu'u zit naar de finale van de Hongkong Sevens te kijken, waarin Samoa het opneemt tegen Nieuw Zeeland. Helaas winnen de All Blacks, maar Nu'u is apetrots op z'n landje. Hij heft me gisteren ...
Upolu
... nur mit dem Mittelfinger. Vielleicht liegt es auch einfach nur daran, dass heute Sonntag ist. Am Sonntag passiert hier in Samoa naemlich gerade mal gar nix ausser in die Kirche gehen. Es fahren keine Busse, und nichts hat geoeffnet. Das merken ...
2 months in
... from getting past. I think it might be called the rainshadow affect, but who knows, I'm no science major. Anyway, American Samoa gets about 300 inches of rain every year. That's almost an inch everyday. We are in the dry season now ...
Apia
... to get out and hit those delicious beaches we had heard so much about. Our destination was the village of Manase on Samoa's largest island, Savai'i. We arrived at the bus station in Apia forty minutes after the last bus to Malifanua ferry terminal was ...