Village life

These two young people were sounding the alarm that church ( Methodist )was about to start.  They do this three times before the meeting actually starts in the village.  You could hear it from a long way off - once they stopped you could see people coming out of their homes and walking towards the church.  It was a neat sight.

This boy really knew how to use his eye brows to say things - he is a cute kid

One of our day trips was to visit a Chief of the village to get his blessing on a project.   The village held a Kava Ceremony in our honor and gave us time to present to the Chief a plan for our partnership to help his village.  Very interesting ceremony and experience.  It is very hard to sit like these men for 2 hours - very hard

This is the Chief's home  located on a small island just 1 km from the shore. we waited until high tide to be able to get to it by boat.

This video will give you an idea of how small the island is,  but it is the home of the Chief and the Chief Minister for the village.  We had to satisfy the Chief Minister as well.