Hello Friends! I have been in my training village Mangaliliu for almost 2 weeks now, and today we are taking a little field trip into Port Vila so I have some time to send an update. Everything is going really well, almost too well. We are really lucky to have Managaliliu as our training village. Let me backtrack a little to when we first arrived a few weeks ago on Sunday... Our group received another warm welcome from the entire village. When we first arrived, they first had us walk down the main road and some boys popped out of the [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone! This will be my last chance to update the blog for a while so just wanted to write a quick note. Things have been going very well and we've been kept really busy this past week. We've had some sort of training during the day from 8-4 everyday either medical, safety, health, or language, all orientation type stuff. Then we are free and usually run errands and go to dinner, kava, or hang out with current volunteers. My day usually ends at 8:30 or 9, which has been bedtime lately. It gets dark really early here, around 6:30, so [View Full Entry]

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Hi friends! I am finally here in Port Vila, Vanuatu! We arrived Saturday and it has been a busy and incredible few days already. When we first arrived in the airport after a long trip (and almost having to stay in the airport another week because some of us were accidentally booked on standby) we were welcomed by smiling faces and a string band playing as we waited in line for customs. The island is beautiful and the weather is perfect. The airport in Port Vila only has one baggage carousel for all of its flights so there are bags everywhere [View Full Entry]

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Hey everyone! My Vanuatu adventure is almost underway. I just spent 2 days in orientation in LA getting to know the other volunteers (there's 21 of us going) and preparing for what we can expect once we arrive. The other volunteers are from all over the US and we will all be participating in some sort of education program as our assignment. I am in the airport in New Zealand now with a 5 hour layover before departing on Air Vanuatu. The 12 hour flight from Los Angeles went by a lot quicker than I thought, I slept a lot and [View Full Entry]

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