The Beach.

So i ran out of time last night when I was using the internet so I had to cut the post short. Yesterday we finished up meeting with some of our partners and then came home to be surprised by our country directors! They had planned a brainstorming meeting at a resort that is twenty minutes from our house! We had all been here a week and had yet to touch a beach let alone the ocean. It's called voda point and is 5 dollars (FJD) for a day pass. It was magical! Everything I hate about the beach doesn't even exist here. I hate the crowds, the not-the-best-food, the sand in weird places, the wind, the weird smell, the pounding waves, the sea gulls, lack of vegetation and above all else the cold water! But OH! the Fiji beaches! no gulls, no crowds, THE BEST FOOD, no wind! It smells like salt and warm coconuts, the sand doesn't stick to you, the water is clear and SO warm. Like a bathtub warm there are palm trees and hammocks and little huts to hang out under and grass and the waves are more like a wave pool with a little bit of surf! And we didn't even touch the spa. (we will hit that up this summer!) my weeks are going to be packed and tiring, but my weekends will be a dream! who am I kidding this whole thing is a dream, but on the weekend we will play hard and rejuvenate for the week. I have taken so many pictures but can't post them because the computers here all have viruses so I cant use my USB. Maybe I can borrow a computer with an internet stick. The only thing these beaches lack the NC always delivers is the best company in the world. Where is my family? I think our next beach get together should be here. What say you? I'm learning the ropes and can probably get some cheap resorts and activities. Secret places even! I know the locals! haha, well, I'm getting there. 
The beaches have the coolest creatures, mud skippers (fish that climb on the docks and skip across the surface of the water) little tiny sand crab that burrow in the white sand, but not like the little mole crabs in NC. They actually look like crabs and are almost perfectly circular. Tiny hermit crabs everywhere and bright vibrant purple blue star fish crawling over the corral. The resort loved us and invited us back again and again inviting us to consider them our "second home". DONE. This weekend we are thinking uninhabited island or snorkeling. it's a toss up so far. If we snorkel we will be going out to the island that cast away was filmed on for anyone who might love that movie.
We got a mini bus for the resort. Our drivers name was Matt and we all fell in love! We will be using him again and again. He is soooo funny, 6'4" and has hair like the black Afro wigs you can by at costume stores in America, only his is AWESOME because it's all real. 
Total change of subject, but Fijians do music way better than we do. They've taken EVERY song good and bad and done island remixes of them. They are all epic. Even the really crappy American song are amazing. Gotta get me some tunes while I'm here.
Everyone keeps telling us to stay away from the boys here. They "love our white skin and want to marry us and go to America". dating isn't allowed while we're here. Flirting is actually forbidden, but to tell you the truth I don't really mind that little fact. The foliage is not the only beautiful thing about the scenery here. One problem is that a mere smile could be considered a flirt here. The boys here don't need much of an invitation. We're all trying to perfect out perma-grump faces.
Another bump in the road we've noticed and need to be careful of --- more so than swooning boys is the fact that many here have decided that white skin equals money. Some of the volunteers were being followed home by a group of drunk men one night. They firmly told them to leave and they did, but traveling alone, especially at night is out of the question.
Today we have been project planning, writing up some proposals and organizing ideas. Adding up finances and reading through resources we have in the house left from past years. I've been a little sick. My sinuses are a little mad at me, but that's nothing a little sine off tonight can't fix.

Anyway, this a pretty boring post, but it's just leftovers from last night that I didn't have time to write about. \
Moce!