Catching Up

So seeing as how it has been a long, long time since I posted, here are some pictures from the last two months of my Samoan life.

A NZ Air Force helicopter landed in our rugby field yesterday. I couldn't find out why.

PCVs AJ and Paul, and Taylor! She made BBQ chicken pizza and it was delicious.

Late one night I was gifted with a wheelbarrow full of bananas from a small boy. Again, I don't know why.

PCVs AJ, Paul, and I making my backyard look nice by burning some rubbish.

Taylor and I in our church clothes. All white is all the fashion.

Supy and I hanging out on the new bridge at the waterfall.

Taylor and I spending some time in a faleo'o.

My freezer periodically ices over (read: every week). I have to take a knife and hack out all the extra ice.

UNC won the NCAA basketball tournment!

I have crabs. They are all over my backyard, and my frontyard. And they are constantly digging holes which I trip over and in. They piss me off. So one day I threw my machete at one sitting on top of its precious hole and chopped two arms/legs off. Take that.

I discovered an absolutely HUGE anthill underneath my living room floor which I proceeded to nuke after getting over my fear of it.

If pictures are worth a thousand words then that's a 11,000 word blog entry I just typed. Not bad, not bad at all. I'll try and keep them coming more regularly.

Inter School Athletics

This past month we have spent every Friday doing some sort of athletics event. Once it was in Apia, once at Tuasivi, once at Prince Edward Park near PCV AJ's school. This means lots of training after school for the kids, and 4 day weeks for me. Here are some photos from the one at Tuasivi:

This girl is running a relay. She has the baton in one hand and a candycane in the other. She was eating the candycane before, during, and after her leg of the relay.

I was one of the official timers for the day. ~ 6 hours in the Pacific suns sucks.

Cool colors on my camera.

And again.

And again.

Future Champ of Champs All-Star perhaps.

He's stretching! (Note: this is not common...)

Shotput.

Our "track" was cut into the field with a weedwhacker the night before.

Javelin.

And again with the javelin.

Computer student doing the high jump. Yeah!

Athletes.

Some of the boys.

Some student spectators.