And the phones are fixed!

Well finally the people from the phone company decided they'd send someone out to fix our telephones. They fixed them and now I'm back online! Yah!

Be sure to check out my photos on my webshots:

http://community.webshots.com/user/alyssathielpcv

Since being back, I've been doing reading groups with the weak readers in grades 1-6. They're going well and it's a much needed area. There's no special ed here at all so all the kids are just in the same class, even though some of the 6th graders can't even recognize letters.

We only have 2 weeks left and then the end of term 1. We have a 2 week vacation before term 2 starts but I'll be staying on Futuna the whole time.

Lately we've been eating a lot of rice since the ship has come. (It came while I was in Vila). What else? Now that I have an ipod I am not so bored. I watch the same 5 episodes of The Office which one of the teachers here had on his computer. They never get old (well at least not yet).

We've had a couple of torrential downpours lately which have caused water to literally run into and through people's houses like rivers. I feel sorry for the people who have dirt floors, luckily I have cement. But now it's nice and sunny. We're moving into the cold season so it's still hot in the day but at night I use a blanket and sometimes I wear a jacket.

Well send me an email. I'll be checking my email occasionally. Or send me a letter/ package of goodies.

my address:

Alyssa
Peace Corps Volunteer
Ishia School
Futuna
Vanuatu, South Pacific

Any snack food or pop culture magazines would be appreciated, but also random surprises are nice! Nothing beats a good letter!