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With your skulls & bling,
You make everything…groovy!
Meet our new (1993) “Suzuki Sidekick” - a belittling model name for a car, I know - but this badass is no shrinking violet. We now cruise the streets of Apia with ferocious looking skulls lining both doors, “Wild Thang” plastered down the sides, and the
piece de resistance, a diamante-studded dollar sign on the front grille! It may have a few mechanical woes which had us stranded in the middle of the island on Day 2 of ownership, and be lacking internal door handles so that we have to wind down the windows to let ourselves out, but damn do we look tough as we reach out the window and yell for the mechanic. Well, at least Bernard our trusty nodding dashboard dog thinks so. But then you can always count on him for a nod of approval, as he seems to be in a perpetual state of agreeance.
While it may seem a bit extravagant for volunteers to have a car, it's actually very difficult to get anywhere outside town on buses (NOTHING runs on a Sunday), so it makes the hugest difference to your freedom. What's more, you
don’t actually lose any resale value on old beaters here - they seem to hit $3,000-4,000 AUD (drastically overpriced for something of questionable roadworthiness) then bottom out. So providing it doesn’t get taken out in a tropical cyclone (touch wood), we should at least get our money back.
Now we have our ticket out of town and have beautiful beaches and surf spots 30mins from our doorstep, so watch out Samoa! What’s more, we can’t wait to prove the Thang’s worth in the upcoming “Amazing Race: Samoa Style”. This is an event planned by two other volunteer couples with almost identical Suzuki Sidekicks to decide which colour truly is fastest - red, blue or black & white. While we’re relative newcomers to the field, we don’t need a list of 10 bullet points to assist with starting our car, nor can we see the road through rust holes in the floor, so I’d say we’ve got a comparative advantage. So much so, in fact, that the Thang is being referred to as "the posh car"
(note: quote accompanied by upturned nose) in the volunteer crowd. But they're just jealous :P
Now I’ve just written all this junk about
Beautiful bling
Look at those diamantes shine!cars when I should have been writing about our unscripted, extremely unaffordable and incredibly amazing three-week trip to the UK and France for Julia’s cousin Rachel’s wedding and the Rugby World Cup. All that and more in the next instalment…
Missing you all back home and yay for our first official visitors Hannah and Dave (in early Dec) and Ben and Nomes (over New Year’s)!!!
Ed
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Anna
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Stylin
You guys must be stylin' around town ;-) Hope all is going well over there - photos look amazing! Anna