Monday, 18 June 2007

Blong Vanuatu!

We're here! We arrived safely on friday night and it really does feel like a really long way from home. It took ages. We flew in over Efate which is the island we will be living on, the island looked beautiful, its almost completely covered with dark green trees and hills with a few houses close to the coast. It didnt take long to go through the passport control as we are Vanuatu residents(!) and there werent many of us on the little plane from sydney.
Our first couple of days have been very positive, our VSO person met us from the airport, and after a couple of nights in a hostel we have moved into our flat. We havent got internet at the flat so this is just a quick one until we find somewhere cheap to email from. This week we have ICT (in-country training) where we are learning all about Vanuatu and living on the "pacific ring of fire" and the VSO programme here: lots about the focus on capacity building!Lots of love.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

oh, i've just figured out how this works!
LOVE YOU!!

Charles & Paula said...

Hope you haven't spent all your pens yet!
When the pictures work we look forward to seeing them.