Kaulugata Siga ni Sucu (Merry Christmas)

The winning team from our rugby tournament

lil' frisbee on the beach in Pacific Harbor

Some of the Labasa Crew on Fiji Day Weekend

View of the Labasa "skyline"

A view of the Vanua Levu country side from a nearby peak in Labasa

Ok, so it has become my new years resolution to post more on this. My new plan is to post once a week and just do short posts so that it is not such a daunting task to update you on everything that has happened over a couple weeks or more. This is to say, that I'll begin working on that plan once I get back from my holiday travels; another volunteer and I are going to be spending the holiday season in Taviuni (an island off the eastern coast of mine). Starting to get pretty excited about it; we should be able to get in some diving and a decent amount of hikingwhile there...hopefully I'll have some good pictures and stories after this adventure.

The last month or so has been busy. We were all brought in for a training and all-volunteer day, which was nicely placed on thanksgiving. Afterwards, I spend some time in the Sigatoka region visiting the sand dunes and such. We've been busy in the office getting together all of the end of the year reports and meetings that have to be held. I done some traveling around to Savusavu and a few of the surrounding villages. It's been difficult recently to get any of the projects/ideas I have off the ground, as everyone is either finishing up things that have to be in before christmas or preparing for holiday travel. As such a lot of my recent work has been laying ground work for projects to begin in January. I have, though, been helping WWF (world wildlife foundation) with some of their research up here, which is both fullfilling to a degree and takes up some of the holiday downtime up here.

Otherwise, everything is going well. The only recent piece of bad news is that my roomate here recently decided to go home, which is really too bad. It brings us down to 4 volunteers here in Labasa, me being the only one now from our group here. But, no worries, we're building a bridge and getting over it.

I wish the best to everyone over the holidays, and I swear I will get something back up hear soon into the new year.