I’m back!
Oh yes back in the UK! I wont lie its pretty nice to be back in nice homely surroundings after spending 2 and a half months in hot and sweaty Fiji. And thankfully getting to take the 3 hours plane ride back over the 5 day sail! which on the previous sail i may just have to add that i didn’t get sick once, seasickness meds seemed to do the trick, despite being excessively tired and restless at the same time!?
So the 3 weeks before we actually started outreach were really well lets say eventful! On the 3 days of being in Fiji, I managed to have an encounter with a ceiling fan! 7 stitches later by the dentist on board the ship and 5 days resting, i was well on my way to healing! the next couple of weeks 2 more of the staff fell ill, 1 leaving to head back home and the other spending days resting with a flu (who knows if it was swine flu!) It was a hectic few weeks, and on top of that trying to plan the second half of our outreach without the ship to another island, Rabi (pronounced Rambi)
God is faithful!! Working with the medical outreach was so fab Chatting with people before the got to see the dentist was great but not so easy after they had just had teeth pulled and were very subdued! Seeing the many happy faces on people able to read again after giving them reading glasses was also such a privaldge!
After 3 weeks on the ship, thats when the adventure began! Rabi island! Taking a bus on the worst ‘road’ in fiji, a dirt track by western standards, then a boat with the 10 in our team and all of our luggage, we beached up on Rabi! Many more adventure were had dring our time there. Lots of singing, lots of dramas, house visits, youth programs, church services, beach cleaning and lots of fish eating. Actually we ate shark on several occasions, stingray and lobster also made it onto our plates! The thing that stuck me the most was the generosity and servanthood of all the people we met, giving up the little that they had for us! the return journey to NZ was maybe just as exciting as getting to Rabi, a 3 hours sail to another island (I was nearly sick on this one) which we camped out on the pews of a church for the night before taking a tiny 12 seater plane to the main island where we flew back to NZ from!
I had a special last week in NZ before i few back here. The DTS graduation, dinner at the Sky tower and an awesome, ticky tour of Auckland, which include a visit to the chocolate boutique, which has dont you know been visited by Bill Clinton!haha!
and thats enough for now! peace
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