Ottoville, Samoa

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...