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2009 has been rather unremarkable as of yet. Here are some less than interesting things that have happened since the new year:
- It has been rainy since I arrived back in Apia. It was mostly overcast when I got off the bus yesterday, and then it rained really hard for about 5 hours last night, and then today hasn’t been much different. This has prevented me from doing laundry today so instead I napped.
- Friday night, Phil and I had a laid back evening. We played Connect 4 for a bit. It turns out that you can play two versions of Connect 4; the slow, thinking man’s Connect 4 and the fast, careless Connect 4. We found the latter to be much more exciting.
- There was only one CD in the Savai’i Peace Corps office Friday, Gwen Stefani’s “The Sweet Escape” album. I admit this is a guilty pleasure of mine, and it is perhaps the most exciting development of 2009. It’s just been that great around here.
- I had peanut butter and jelly for dinner last night. One strange thing about grocery shopping in Samoa is that buying in bulk doesn’t necessarily mean paying less; things aren’t necessarily cheaper by the dozen. A 300 ml jar of peanut butter might be $4.80 and the 600 ml jar might be $10.60. It’s weird.
- Really, I can only scrounge around for 4 bullets worth of material. This fifth bullet is simply to point out that 4 bullets really aren’t that many.
In any case, it does feel like January is working toward something, and that’s all I ask of it. I hope things are well. Pictures from Phil’s camera below!
Oh… also, happy birthday, Natasza!
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Phil's cousin(?), Onosai. He speaks very little English and doesn't actually understand the what his t-shirt says.
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Phil's camera does cool things like this. This is from early training.
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For some reason, Blogger insists on posting this picture in portrait though it is shot in landscape. Annoying. Top to bottom: Akanese, Tuese, Me.
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Dylan.
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Me and Paul. Hotties.
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Another landscape to portrait snafu. Top to bottom: AJ, me, Jordan, Chris, Supy, Paul.
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Me at the siva in Tafitoala dancing with a lady who asked me to dance.
3 comments:
hope all is well matt! Onosai looks like Rick Fox. Just saying.
i appreciate the fact that you are listening to that gwen stefani album. it has one of our favorite songs on it :)
lol@Onosa'is t-shirt.... love reading your blogs Matt!
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