Life here

Life here is still going great. I am on the internet quite frequently now so send me an email to my gmail- alyssathiel@gmail.

Everyone is so nice here and the teachers actually appreciate my help. I've been working with various classes on English and then will be running some workshops next month. I have also started to eat at different houses to get to know people better, and that's been really good as well.

The weather has been rather rainy lately so the solar power is low, but today is sunny so I'm back on the computer.

My daily life I get up around 6:30 and drink tea and then go to school for a couple hours in the morning. I eat lunch and hang out and talk to people in the afternoon. I've been doing some knitting too. Crazy huh to do knitting in the south pacific, but it does get cold here sometimes. I should say it gets "cold" because I'm sure when I go back to the US I'll absolutely freeze. I'll need someone to meet me at the airport with a winter coat and real shoes (not sandals). I haven't worn real shoes in over a year. Also it's weird to think I haven't worn jeans in over a year, because in the states I wore them almost every day. Oh so back to my life here. At night I'll eat dinner and then we hang out and talk till maybe 9 or 10 and then I sleep. I'm lucky because a few people have solar power here so we have lights, but in my house I do not. So I typically don't go back to my house until I'm ready to sleep. My house is made out of tin and has a concrete floor. It's small but bigger than my house on Ambae. It's nice.

Anyway that's about it for now. Write me an email if you get the chance!

So I'm on Futuna

Guess what?

I'm on a tiny spec of an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and we have internet!

It is absolutely amazing. I don't even know where to start.

The people here are probably the nicest people I've ever met. Everyone is so friendly. And not only that, but they also have solar power and laptops! So although yes I'm in the middle of nowhere, it doesn't matter at all.

It's absolutely beautiful here, but I don't think I'll be spending my time trying to upload photos from the dial-up internet anytime soon.

Anyway, I just wanted to let everyone know that I'm here and it's awesome.

Leaving on a Jet Plane

Today I depart for Futuna. I am very excited. I will begin my journey by going on the large plane (42 seater) to Tanna. Then I only have about 15 minutes at the airport until I get on the small plane to Futuna (8 seater). I should arrive before lunch today. I don't know when I'll be back online, so if you'd like to know what's going on with me, write me a letter or send me a message to my satellite phone!