Posts Tagged ‘Nakavika’

Various news publications reported Cyclone Mick as a battering, vicious storm, causing a lot of devastation to Viti Levu in December of 2009. BBC showed disheartening video footage of the aftermath. Al-Jazeera accentuated the death count. The Telegraph wove together an anthropomorphic description of Mick using beastly adjectives galore. All of these articles were [...]

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Today I’m flying home.
I have no other quotes to share but these…not about travel but about education and ignorance.
If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool [...]

The other day I asked Abel, our friend in Nakavika, to write something for the website – as someone with the insider perspective on what we were doing there. Though he could have been persuaded to write something extra kind from my request, I think he wrote what potential he saw in his own community [...]

A 45 year-old man died of a heart attack at the top of the hill near Namando river. The village was hit hard, especially his widow and eight children. The entire week was a blur of death, rain and sadness. Experience with us a Fijian funeral in the highlands…

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One more week before I head back to America, flying home on the 14th. Get this – I get to enjoy two Valentine’s Days this year. Let’s take one more look at some travel quotes (since I don’t have time to check out my favorite travel blogs) before we bring an end to The Nakavika [...]

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Once again, I fall victim to the paucity of internet in the village. I don’t know what people are writing about or what’s going on in this world. It’s kinda nice, I gotta say. I’m instead looking inward while on The Nakavika Project. Let’s make like Janet Jackson and go deep in our thinking, facilitated by [...]

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The second class occurred at Fane’s house and covered budgeting money. Four boys showed up, and I was thrilled. Their eye contact and requests to take notes made me think they were there to actually take away skills to apply.
The class went something like this…
Welcome to Budgeting and Money 101
Question: How do you already manage [...]

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I’m not talking about Trix cereal. I’m talking about the Nakavika Project classes we’ve been conducting here in Fiji.
Within the first week of teaching the children about English and hygiene/health, the young men of the village expressed their interest in learning what we have to teach. Classes with these boys began immediately and covered such [...]

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Sadly, I’m not able to read the blogs I regularly follow, thanks to a lack of internet in the village. Instead I’m looking inward while on The Nakavika Project. Join me in some deep thinking facilitated by some travel quotes:
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might [...]

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Though I feel it’s probably a required ingredient to the “good global citizen” recipe, I don’t think I’ll ever be truly bi-lingual. Darn tootin’, wouldn’t that be wonderful? I just don’t think I have the stamina to only concentrate on one culture at a time. As my pseudonym suggests, I gotta keep moving. Instead, my [...]