Holy smokes! Time sure flies!

Sorry it has taken so long to get a new post up, but...I've just been living Fiji time! aka...whenever it happens, it happens...

Right now I am looking out a window of a cafe at Jack's, a bus stand, a hot bread shop, and a BSP atm...typical Fiji town.  Except I'm in Suva! (Suva is the capital of Fiji and about 6 hours via bus from our homebase of Ba.  It is the biggest city by far...it's almost like America.)  Anyway, that is the reason I am able to blog...I have fast internet!

What am I doing in Suva?  Well, a little group of us came for the weekend to go to the temple and now I am staying an extra weekish to work on stuff in Deaf schools!  I went to the Hilton School for the Deaf today and hung out in the classroom with 2 boys and the teacher and learned and learned.  At the Hilton school, they teach more of a Signed English approach so it definitely different from what I am used to but I'm trying to pick it up.

Projects:  We have a ton of projects going on but some of my favorites to work on:
1. PRISM - This is a health screening program where we go out to villages and communities and help the nurses and Dr. Animesh.  The nurses are my favorite to talk to - they are like my grandmothers.  Dr. Animesh and the team from America are way rad too...they give up their time to come help the people of Fiji and they are all so awesome!  It is also a real inside look at the village life.
2. Ministry of Health - Basically...I love playing with kids. And with the Ministry (of Magic), we go to the schools and teach or give them pills and stuff.  ALL THE KIDS HERE ARE ADORABLE.  I am seriously considering taking them all home to me.  Last Friday we did school gardens in a couple schools and it was sooo fun!  At Tagore Memorial, I got a free concert by about 25 kids singing "baby" and "never say never" by Justin Bieber. Greatest thing I have ever heard in my life.  They knew every single word.  They put Provo apartment dance parties to shame.  :)
3. Darcee and I are starting a fitness/nutrition class project...we have our lesson plans outline and they start next week! 
4. Zac and I are researching for a BYU social venture called 2 foot prosthetics to see if we can set up a prosthetics clinic! It is really a need because there are so many amputees from diabetes and the only place for prosthetics is in Suva and it cost $800...which no has.
5. Zac and I are also working with a counseling service called Lifeline...a couple weeks ago we went to a youth rally in a village in the interior (aka middle of the island...aka wayyy awesome and green and in the mountains and remote) with Tima to do an outreach...we met lots and lots of awesome people and they sang beautiful songs and drank kava for 6 hours...haha. we didn't partake in that little party. :)

anyway, i have less than 5 minutes left...more to come later!