Today makes 3 weeks (a full 21 days!) we've been in Vanuatu. It's 7:30 on a Sunday evening and close to our bedtime. The weather has been great and everyone is so nice. We went to church this morning. The service (as is typical in this country) was done in three different languages, the local language, bislama and english. Songs are in all three languages - sometimes in the same song, our church has an entire hymn book in the local language. The bible readings switches between bislama and english, the sermon is usually in bislama. Today's reading was the passover - you know - everyone needs to put some blood on their door so the devil doesn't get them. I could kind of imagine our village getting together an organizing some type of 'blood on everyone's door' committee. Not that it's anymore relevant, but it did some how feel more possible - which I appreciated, thus helping the 3-hour service go a bit quicker.
Our training village is on the North coast of Efate island in a small village with about 500 people. We spend two hours a day in language training, but it seems to be enough as we are both doing fine with bislama, we can both make small small talk with a patient listener.
Training is training, we were warned about it before we got here. You get told what to do a lot and sometimes not all of the trainers are on the same page, so we end up spending plenty of time determining what we are meant to do. In the end, everyone wants us to do well and we'll be fine.
We're thinking of you guys...
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