i'm heading to manunu, an inland village, in a few hours. we will each be staying with a host family for 4 weeks. my camera is broken so hopefully someone else will let me steal some pictures. we won't have internet there or many other things. we will have mosquito nets though. one of the girls got medically separated and left last night. it was very sad, but hopefully she will be able to come back next year.

the current volunteers and trainers had a big send off party ( fiafia ) for us last night. there was a ton of food, fire dancing, all kinds of other dancing, and a few other trainees, some trainers, and me sang a samoan song for everyone. it was very nice and i was able to make it through the whole thing even though i've been battling a cold. i hope it goes away soon. peace all!