Blogs from Vanuatu, Oceania - page 9

i have to apologize. it seems sher's tone unsettled a few avid readers. be at ease - there is resolution. and sher's voice is reassuring on the phone. i can't really say 'enjoy' this ending to the story, but i hope it leaves your mind a little less anxious. have a good week - b Early March 2010 Island Justice Part II On Tuesday, the day after the vicious village meeting, the older man, who was beaten to a pulp and unable to walk or talk, was still in the health center. Visitors came to question him, trying to pump as much information from him in regards to the crime as possible. Somehow it surfaced that he was paid 5,000 vatu (about $50) to work the custom, as were the other two young men. Now a ... read more

houston, we have blogs. =) i'm home for the weekend and enjoying it. i received a jump drive of entries from sher earlier this week, and figured i better get uploaded. if you know our house, i'm lounging on one of our awesome front room couches right now and loving it. its things like this i miss about home. that and snacks. ok, ok, here's sher's bloggy blog. - b 30 December 2009 While Kansas was blanketed in snow for Christmas, we had our precipitation in the form of rain on Maewo. It’s hot and rainy season on Maewo. Which isn’t saying much, I feel like it is hot and rainy all the time. So, by my standards, it’s hot-er and rainy-er season on Maewo. The lady in the Melbourne airport said while checking our passports ... read more

Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands lying between New Caledonia and Fiji in the South Pacific. Port Vila is the capital and largest city of Vanuatu. Situated on the south coast of the island of Efate, in Shefa Province, where the city population is around 38,000. Port Vila is the economic and commercial center of Vanuatu. Vanuatu was a another location for Survivor. The area occupied by Port Vila has been inhabited by Melanesian people for thousands of years. After 1887, the territory was jointly administered by the French and the British. This was formalized in 1906 as an Anglo-French condominium. During World War II, Port Vila was an American and Australian airbase. In 1987, a cyclone severely damaged the city. Another powerful earthquake in January 2002 caused extensive damage in the capital and surrounding ... read more

Jaha, då ska vi se om jag möjligen kan författa något som är kortare än Gamla Testamentet. I begynnelsen skapade Gud himmel och jor.... Nähä, nu blev det inte riktigt rätt här. Jag börjar om. Vi har alla våra hang-ups: för en del är det Malt-whiskey, för andra handväskor. För mig är det Dugonger. - Dugungvadå?? En Dugong är ett stort vattenlevande däggdjur som lever i samtliga tropiska mellan östafrika och Oceaninen. Den ser ut ungefär som en snäll farbor som någon stoppat i en ovanligt stor strumpa. Eller möjligen en säl på steroider. 3 meter långa och 300 kilo tungar tillbringar dessa harmlösa djur sina dagar med att i med att i maklig takt beta sjögräs och sova. De kallas även sjökor och sägs vara upphovet till legenderna om sjöjungfrur (hur i hela världen det ... read more

4 November 2009 A collection of news flashes to get you all up to date on life and times on Maewo as we head out for Australia. Our headline news: The school’s computers are here! Justin has promptly set them up and, well, set them up. There is still the minor detail to resolve of how to power the machines. Justin has entertained ideas of re-routing some solar panels at the school (which were intended to power the classrooms but aren’t being used) to power the computers. He also thought of charging a fee to use the computers to pay for fuel needed to run a generator and power them. However, since up until now the computers weren’t materially here, the staff and school board have been lax about making any decisions about what should be ... read more