Sorry about the delay everybody. Findingf Internet is sketchy. I only have a few moments but I will be down loading pictures and **** on the weekend. All I can say so far is its Smoking HOT!!! The hospital is nuts. I have soo many cool stories to share just no time. I will update this thing on the weekend. Hope everybody is well. T'ill the weeke...

Hi everyone! I think it's about time I took you for a walk around Apia, don't you? First we'll have a look at the tourist office, isn't it a sight for sore eyes! It's located down by the Main Beach Rd that follows, not surprisingly, the water line all the way thru Apia. It is built to resemble a traditional Samoan house, also known as a Fale. Th...

This was written the beginning of August. Hi all, Well things are starting to seem much more real now that we have visited our village. We have been placed on the second, larger, island of Savai'i. We have to take a bus to the wharf, about 45 minutes from Apia and then the ferry to Savai'i. The ferry takes about an hour and 15 minutes. The trip ...

We have finally reached our objective-Apia, Samoa. We arrived at about 5:30 in the morning just as the sun was coming up. We were met by a party of Peace Corps volunteers with flowers, along with a traditional Samoan band, then we were packed off in vans with our mountain of luggage to a small hotel in Apia which the Peace Corps has taken over t...

So on the 3rd of December we left New Zealand for the Pacific Island of Samoa and arrived a day before we left due to crossing the international date line. We had been warned about the humidity but getting off the plane we realise we weren´t prepared. We had also heard about the Samoan hospitality but the Fia Fia(traditional singing and dancing)...

Fa'a Samoa means literally "The Samoan Way," and in Samoa refers to an all-encompassing traditional system of behavior and responsibilities that spell out each person's relationship to one another and to persons holding positions of power. That was educational wasn't it? Right then, onto the fun stuff.. You wake up at Nadi. I set my watch one ho...

Today was "Cultural Exploration Day" for us trainees and select volunteers. Again we had good food. Lunch consisted of steak, chicken, sausage, patato salad, cole slaw, and some attempt at an orange drink. It was good, I got some sun, played some dominoes and spades, saw TONS of different fish. We took an hour bus ride to the south side of the i...