What we're really doing (when we're not playing pool volleyball).

What we're really doing. After purchasing our volleyball net for the pool at our apartment (it will be a GREAT outreach tool), we've spent our "fun" time playing pool volleyball, learning the ropes of buying fresh fruits and veggies at the market, learning/teaching guitar, winning (if you're me) or losing (if you're one of the other 5 stinters) at card games like euchre, canasta, and 10's and 2's, and baking cookies.

"So after all the fun and games are over, what do you do?" you may be asking yourself. Well, this week, we're putting together 1,000 First-year kits that we'll hand out to all the first year students at USP. The first-year kits include a brown lunch bag with a book, CD, magazine, bookmark, highlighter, and pen. We decorated the bags with information about when our weekly meetings will be held. The goal is that the bags will familiarize the students with Student Life ("student life" is what fijians call Campus Crusade for Christ), and we'll have questionnaires for the students to fill out that will help us find students who are interested in talking to us about spiritual topics. Jenny, Mary and I found the bags (which was quite an adventure), and decorated them, while Brian, Rob and Dave put them together. We're still looking for a good deal on some bulk pens and highlighters, so if you know of any fijian stores that sell them cheap, holla!

A surprise from MHCC. Yesterday when we got home from the grocery store (MHCC), we discovered little bugs infesting our 4 kg (that's a lot!) bag of flour. As evidenced by the picture, this led to a disgruntled mary. But the girls were troopers and sifted through the entire bag and picked out the bugs. Yesterday was also when I realized that grocery shopping is in the running for being my least favorite thing to do in Fiji.


Last weekend, Jeanette (Koli and his wife, Jeanette, are the crusade directors at USP) drove me, jenny, and mary around Suva to see some places that we hadn't yet discovered (and to be honest, probably would have never found on our own). We saw the Australian, American, Chinese, and Indian embassies. We went to a Fijian flea market, the Pure Fiji factory (a fijian-style bath and body works), and she took us to the most beautiful overview of Suva that I've seen yet.

Keep it real, america.