After my last blog post yesterday, Jacob, Beeeeth and I went for a shop. We wanted some souvenirs some deoderant and other odds and ends. We first went to the music store so that Jacob could get some stuff. We saw a tall blonde white guy at the other end of the store. It is pretty exciting when you see a white person in Fiji. We pretty much act like the Fijians when we see white people and we stare and take pictures. (People actually come up to us and ask if they can have a picture OF us, not WITH us. OF us. How awkward.) Jacob told me that I should go talk to him. I didn't. When Jacob was paying all of a sudden the white guy was talking to us! Woah. Then we hung out with him for the afternoon. How awesome is that!? He is from Canada. It was really weird because when he first started talking to him he sounded like he had an accent and I couldn't place it. I guess I have been away from Canada for too long. Hahaha!
This Canadian is in Fiji for a few months and has apparently been travelling the world for about 5 years. That's so long. But so awesome. I am a bit jealous. He told us about his life philosophy which included being really healthy and taking it easy, doing what you want (travel) while you are young, and then when you get old you can get a real job and you won't have wreked your body so you will live long. Something like that. Sounds good to me.
We pretty much spent the whole afternoon chatting with him at the country club and drinking ice-cold water. So good. He took us to this country club and showed us that you can get in for 3 times for free and they have a free pool. Unfortunately none of us had our swimsuits. I contemplated jumping in in my undies but I thought maybe the club people would ban me from the pool. So we hope to hit up the pool in the near future. But we only have about a week left. I am so sad. I don't want to leave my new family here. I want to stay with them forever!
Last night we had a burn night again at the church but this time was so much better because there is airconditioning in the church now!!! So the room didn't smell totally ronchy by the end of it and my hair was dry. Woah. That is un-heard-of. I bought some Roti from the Roti Kids again so that they could come worship with us. It was fun.
Today we were supposed to go out to the village (Lovu) to do a children's program thing this afternoon, but there is a cyclone coming so everyone is preparing for that and stocking up on water and food. And Lovu is one of the places that really floods so those people are evacuating I think. So it got cancelled. So we have a free afternoon. Glorious. I got some souvenirs and spent way too much money, and am gonna get lots of water and food incase the cyclone is bad. Prayers would be much appreciated! The cyclone hit Samoa the other day and a few people got killed and lots of children are missing. So pray for them too! I think it is supposed to hit Tonga today or soon and Fiji tomorrow ish! So pray for the pacific islanders!
In other news, I have discovered something about myself that I never knew. I don't like curry. I always thought that I loved curry. Nope. I only like it when there is a lot of hot chilis in it. But do you know what the chili's do? They block the taste of the actual curry. Who knew?
Also, the other day our Fijian friend who has been helping us out with everything while we've been here told Sarah right to her face that she is kinda fat. Ummm she is so far from fat it is not even funny. If she is fat, then I am obese. I couldn't believe it because all of the Fijian women are quite big and curvey because they love to eat a lot. I think I am quite a lot skinnier than all of them, so I don't know how our friend is ever going to find a Fijian wife if he thinks that me and Sarah are fat. I would have thought that the Fijian men like curvey women because that is what most cultures with African decendents are like.
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