Jj'S On The Park-Suva

... to see if it takes off before xmas and then reasses whether to come back and do moretime on the project in feb or go and do some extra travelling. Not entirely what i expected but guess things don't always go to plan. Any one has any ideas let me know! Anyway talk soon, Tim

... there was a fresh fish sitting on the ground on tarps, Live crabs tied in bundles bubbling away in the sun. The fresh food markets were crazy, thousands of people buying food from the country farms. Both Aido and Dylsie were flabberghasted. We decided to go back to the Ship and relax by the pool. Neaty haggled for a bargain and was going to walk off and the price Neaty wanted to pay was the final price (1 ...

... papaya, pineapple, bananas, and coffee. We had two lectures that day at USP, one about the coups and the other about ethnic conflicts in Fiji. We had to take the bus home this day. Our dad told us just take any bus into town and then you get to the big bus station and get on the hospital bus, so we were pretty confused that it was that easy and we were kind of scared. We rode the bus into Suva which was blaring crazy rap/hip-hop music (all buses were like that), and the buses there were ...

... my life. When you are leaving the island they sing a goodbye song and wave you off the boat. Its so personal and yet they do it day in day out and still seem to love it.<br><br>The first night we spent a Bounty Island aka Celebrity Love Island!!!!!!!!!! OMG I couldn't believe that we were there after watching it every night on TV!! (See video below) Jo and I spent hours walking around trying to figure out where everything had been, it was just so exciting ...

The Western Bulldogs came to Fiji looking to find a ruckman. They have been here about 6 times this year watching all the athletics and rugby events looking for talent. This weekend they bought 3 of their fitness staff and Will Minson, their ruckman to conduct a talent ID program. It must have rained for 24 hours ...

... and bull sharks. I was a bit disappointed we hadn't seen the tiger shark but it was still a fantastic dive. We all stroked the nurse sharks. They seemed greedy trying to eat all the food. The dive instructors would push them away. They we're like greedy dogs. As we were surfacing there was a silvertip swimming around beneath me. Great dive!! Definitely recommend it. Heading to Tavueni tomorrow for apparently more great dives. Can't wait!!

Bula everyone back in Oz Sorry its taken a while to update you on our Fiji progress, however I have been flat out working. I know you will find this hard to believe, but they sold me a dud when I got the job. Its a 5 day a week gig - I thought it was a 5 day weekend. Anyway, for those of you who are interested and havent forgotten us just yet, heres an update on my 1st 2 weeks here and Pams 1st week. Apologies for the massive group email, but thats the way ...

... shower does not have a curtain, the sink did not drain, oh yea if you want water you could pay $5.00 a bottle or you drank rain water. So I had rain water. Which by the way is not bad and it looked clear to me. I spent 4 days on this island, it was beautiful but there was no electricity during the day, I really missed electricity, I did not know how dependent I was on it. They had activities each night, they did a fire dance, games, etc. It was a lot ...

... and coach the children at the schools. The children would range from 5 - 18 at the different schools. All of the children in Fiji love rugby and it is played everywhere. In Fiji they play Fiji one touch which is touch rugby but once you are touched or the ball hits the deck it changes sides so it is very fast following and crazy rugby. The schools we coached at were at different standards but one of the schools we coached at Nailuva was an academy team and were known to be ...

... think they have done pretty well. Quite proud and at least I know that they will be able to maintain it when I leave. Check out the site on www.lands.gov.fj and if you have any serious problems or see some glaring errors please drop me an email on morgan@lands.gov.fj <br><br><br><br>LAZY PERSON ENRTY.<br><br><br><br>Fiji won Rugby 7's World Cup. A national holiday was declared to welcome home players and on the same day my house was robbed with most of my electronic ...