March 8

It's Monday morning, almost 7:30. Bamma and Justin are still sleeping, Alex is boiling some water for tea and I thought I'd take a couple minutes to blog. We spent forever in church again yesterday, not really in church, but with the community after church, in their nakamal.

A nakamal is a community meeting place. Here they are weaved bamboo buildings with local thatched roofs. Some of them are pretty big, big enough you could play field sports inside. They have community meals inside the nakamals and drink kava and have community meetings and just hang-out and story-on. Yesterday the Anglican Mother's Union held dance rehearsal practice inside the nakamal.

The Mother's Union is ran by men.

We were going to walk to the water source today to get an idea of what it's all about, but it rained too much yesterday and I'm afraid it would just be too muddy and slick to go.

tea's ready, I'm out.