Moturiki School Fair Saturday 25th October 2008 Today was probably the highlight of our whole trip so far. We got up, chucked the hermit crabs out of our sand-floor bure hut, had breakfast and then Elena and Simosi invited us to go with them to Moturiki island, where the children go each day to school by boat. On Moturiki there are just three villages, no tourist accommodation, one school and three village churches. Today was a special fund-raising event for the school, to buy library books and shelving to put them on. We felt very honoured to be invited. Many tourists pay to visit villages but to be invited to go along with the family to an event not organised for tourists but for the community was quite special. All the family went to Moturiki, all
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