We have had our first taste of it and believe me for those of you back in the UK you are missing ...nothing. Imagine a bowl full of liquid that looks like china clay and tastes like ten day old washing up liquid and you are part of the way - you go into a dimly lit nakamal (bar) and buy your bowl of kava and then rather than sitting down and drinking it all together, you go off on your own into the bushes, neck the kava as quickly as you can without tasting or smelling it (you then appear to have to spit copiously) and quickly eat something to take the taste away. You then go back to your friends - the more you drink the quieter you become until you are surrounded by tables of people just sitting and staring.
Apart from the kava we have also started learning bislama. This saturday we decided to do some food shopping in the big open air market in the middle of Vila. The only two problems we had were that we didn't recognise what anything was and once we had decided to buy something we didn't know what to do with it.
We are working on the pictures and will hopefully have some up later in the week.
(For those of you who were giving us a hard time about our destination you will be pleased to know that it rained all day on sunday!)
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Sounds as though you are doing better than expected with the Kava - thought that it was meant to freeze the mouth and lips - Hannah lost for words??
Mary says sounds like a good night out, not,on the Kava.
We have just have had the first phone call - makes H&J seem a lot less far away - even though it did sound as though H was a bit hoarse and whispering.
We are very worried that life sounds too good, albeit getting dark at 5.00 pm and going ot bed by 9.00 is a bit different tp say the least.
Will you be posting a weekly lesson in Bislama?
Have found a good website for cheap international calls - moneysavingexpert.com (thanks to Mike James in Farway) - which is cheaper for calling mobiles - so do post your mobile number - we will try to remember the time difference!!
Mi mas go noa.
I quite liked the kava. I think John was being a bit weedy.
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