Happy Ratu Sukuna Day!

Hi ya'll! Hope that everything is going good for everyone. And today we celebrated Ratu Sukuna Day who is a statesman of Fiji. He is well known and well loved thats just about what I know about him. We had a ward activity in which we had to dance to Tina Turners song, "Proud Mary" it was a hilarous dance. Our Relief Society sisters were all so good that everyone was on the edge of their seats laughing. Tina Turner was our former Relief Society President Eta Taukada, she really did play her part well.
By the way I happen to be the Relief Society 2nd Counsellor in our family ward. Its weird to be back in a family ward again, there are so many things that are done differently. Its really a great calling I realize why the Lord blessed me with the BYUH experience. Its been great getting to know each of the sisters and realize how each of them are unique. They also have faced extraordinary challenges and continue to face them but they're still in the church. Every Sunday attending church feels like a treat, most of the lessons given leaves a lot to be desired but the spirit I feel from them often rejuvenates me and keeps me in check the whole week.
Work this week was uneventful, it was a usual week where we deal with Family Assistance. It's the assistance we give to the poor kind of like TANF. It's can be really draining to deal with recepients but I love my job so no complains.

Hello Ha.....this week has been slow for me....well not really I guess just normal. I got to do my first Court Report for and adoption, we call it a GAL report. My supervisor rated it very good for a first timer......woohooo!!! It was an interfamily adoption and the hearing was on Friday which ironically was my birthday. Me and Marj played hookie and didn't go to work so we can go celebrate at a real nice resort at Pacific Harbor. So, me, Orisi, Marj, and a friend Janelle from Hawaii all went. It is an hour away from Suva so we borrowed my sisters car. We had a real nice lunch for an affordable price then we went swimming. It was so nice the beach wasn't crowded like it is in Hawaii always and the water was cool. By the way we are approaching winter season so it can get cold too here. They have real good water sports activites which we have to pay so we payed for the ones that we can afford.....kayaking. We were moving around the water like TOVUTO's more like beached ones. I really enjoyed the place so if anyone comes to Fiji for a holiday and want me as a tour guide I will take you there.....just make sure you pay for my lunch.

We came back and we had another dinner with one of our workmates. She makes the best dhal anyone could ever taste, along with Lamb curry, tomato and cucumber chutney, and the works. Tomorrow I'm seriously thinking of joining the water aerobics group but then again what have I got to lose!

I'm a BLOGGER!!!

Hi....this is the first time I'm trying this out so bear with me. I thougth it would be a good idea to blog and say its your journal rather then keeping an actual one....which is tiring to keep! I will make sure I introduce blogging to my children maybe when they're like 2 or 3 years of age....if I get to keep this going for that long. Also, I'm using this so I can only say good things. So, if I ever miss or I've been missing in action for a long time just email me so I can get on with it again.

Anywayz, I've been back in Fiji for four months now and its been a roller coaster trying to find a job. I had hoped that I would get in the Department of Social Welfare but they thought otherwise and with the current situation in Fiji....I mean I was seriously considering selling some vegetables in the market, its a noble profession too you know!

So, as Marj said the only way into being a Civil Servant is through the 'back door'.... the Fijian way of saying it, "e backdoor taki." So, I've been working for the Department now for a month and a half and I still haven't been paid.....I guess the Lord is trying to punish me for not stopping the coup.

Well, today was the first day I got to go to Juvenile Court, I had heard some pretty traumatizing stories of Chief Magistrates and today I got to see firsthand. Luckily, she was a real nice Fijian lady who seemed to know that it was my first time and went out of her way to make me feel welcome. However, after that experience I felt so weak that I came back to the office and 'mokusiga' around. Towards the afternoon I got a memo informing me that a child that was placed in Care had passed away. I had read the file while filing it away and it seemed like I knew the child but when the news came it seemed like a statistic. It was sad, I didn't even know the child but it was really sad....but those are the joys of being a social worker.