Yesterday I came to Vila. I left Futuna for the last time (unless I go back to visit some day). The airport agents sent a message that we had to get to the airport early because the plane would come at 8 am. I left my village at 6 in the morning and waited at the airport for a long time. The agent finally got there and said he sent a message that the plane would come at 10, so I guess that got mixed up somewhere. Anyway, 10 o'clock came and went and there was no sign of a plane. But eventually around 12:30 it arrived. When it landed, one of the tires popped perhaps on a sharp stone. Then the plane had a flat tire. They said that we may have to go on it like that, but i did not think that was a good idea. They said "you don't need a wheel to fly a plane" but I reminded them that we would have to land again. Well luckily they called the airline and they sent another plane to Futuna with 2 mechanics and 2 spare tires. They changed both the broken tire and the other back tire because they said it looked like it was going to pop at any time. I'm not sure why they didn't check that when they left the capital, but at least they got it fixed. And then instead of going on the plane whose tires had broke, which would've stopped at 2 other destinations before mine, I got to fly directly to the capital on the mechanics' plane.
Now I'm in the capital until the 7th finishing up all my Peace Corps work. The above photos show the flat tire and them fixing it.
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