Wan Smol Spel (Sort of...)

Well, I'm in Vila! And I did have two other blogs for you which I sent home on the USB stick, but you know my family (most of you) and you should also know how slack they can be about this type of thing so you're going to have to wait until I get home to check out my malekula and photo blogs - no insult meant you lazy slobs. :0)
Anyway! I've left Paama. Bec and I had to leave early, as soon as we could really, because we were having a bit of trouble with the local boys. For the last week we were there there were men trying to get into our house every night (you could hear them trying to open the windows), calling out my name and rushing to the toilet every time we had to go. For the last month before that they'd come every night and for the month before that they'd come every 2 or 3 nights. If you can believe it's possible, we did get used to it after a while but it was creepy and it was hard to work under those conditions (which I'm sure you'll understand).
Anyway! Apart from that Paama was good. We didn't feel very appreciated, being the sixth set of volunteers or something, we think that both the school and the village had gotten used to volunteers taking on their workloads for them. But anyway. Getting off that topic too. The kids were wonderful, the primary school was sad to see us go and made me feel like a million bucks on my last day (they're soooo cute!) and I felt like I made a difference there - so all in all, a fulfilling 4 months.
I'm currently in Vila staying with a Peace Corp called Julie who is great company. I'm also working with World Vision which is very fulfilling and I know I'm making a difference here as people keep saying thankyou for lightening a very heavy load and all the work I've done.
Bec was here for a week too and I know she enjoyed herself. She's currently lounging around on beaches with boyfriend Doug (nice guy) and in... three nights time... I'll be lounging around on beaches with Sally (Alley and Sarah) and I'm literally bursting with excitement!
But for now it's a desk and a computer screen for me. I've already helped to reformat the literacy work books for the rural literacy and numeracy project (teaching people over fifteen how to read and write), and the teach handbook for the same topic, so that it fits government standards and people who complete the course can be certified (this is all in bislama by the way). Then I went through what felt like hundreds of kastom stories writing activities, questions and practical tasks for each one. Then I fiddled around with other practical activity ideas and wrote a 'how to make a village newspaper' guide in bislama. Now I'm writing a mathematics workbook in bislama from scratch, translating an English reading test into bislama for VCC-001 and after that apparently I can help type up even more kastom stories or help with booklets for an 'education starts at home' project...
So I'm busy. :0) But I'm having fun and I'm gonna have one hell of a resume! :0)
Getting completely off that topic now. This is the plan for when Alley and Sarah get here: