Ok so sometimes the blog works and sometimes it doesn't.
One word to describe Fiji: not possible. It is beautiful, amazing, humid, awesome, hot, lush, green, fantastic, great, did I say beautiful? I am hav ing a blast already. I haven't been to the ocean and probably won't get to be there but once or twice this whole summer. I can see it from a village we work in.
I experienced a lot of firsts in the last four days which include first plane ride, first use of piblic transportation, first time driving on the left side of the road, first time eating curry, first time sleeping in a foreign country, first time being the minority...
We are staying in Ba, a bigger town int he northwest part of the main island. We will mostly be working in Ba, Tavua, Lautoka, and surrounding villages.
Yesterday and today we went to these towns to map them out and familiarize ourselves with possible partners, hospitals, churches, ngo's, gov't and civic offices. I went to Tavua, which is a small town that HELP was stationed in last year. GOLD Foundation is stationed there and is a ngo we will be working a lot with as we develop projects. Irene runs it and is an amazing lady. She does anamazing job of coordinating with us. Fiji has Fijian and Indo-Fijians. Ba is the Indo-Fijian capitol of Fiji so there are a lot more Indo-Fijians in Ba  than Fijians. Fijians are so friendly and nice. I want to be friends with all of them.
There are 18 of us volunteers trying to live in a 3 bedroom house and we have 2 more volunteers coming in a few days. We are trying to find more space becuase it is pretty tight and cosy.
Well my half hour is almost up. Don't expect any picutres because the internet is very slow here so I don't know if I would be able to upload any. If you have any questions or anything just send me an email or post on facebook. I know this is kind scattered.