September 3

Last week our boss, President Sefeti, told us that our bigger boss, Ngatai Smith was coming into Suva on Saturday.  I have been asking Scott to set some time aside to 'fix up' (I use that term very loosely) our part of the institute.  He decided last Friday that that might be a good idea.  In the middle of the night I woke up with this great idea.  We can't get poster paper here, but the bulletin boards are in desperate need.  We don't have money to change them, so I get this great idea.  Go buy sulus ($5) and cut them to fit the bulletin boards.  Scott already had one we used for our dance (see picture), so we just bought two lime green plain ones.  We had decided that we would attend the temple at 8 and then spend the morning in the institute; however, we were late getting to the temple, so we rearranged our plans.  We went over to the institute at 8 and started.  The first sulu I tried did not fit the board.  I wrangled, stretched, and wrangled but I could not get it to look good.  Finally I just ripped it off the board.  I then tried Scott's orange sulu with the Fiji Islands printed on the bottom.  It fit perfectly.  By the time I got to stapling, Abraham, the primary school guard, had seen the back door to the institute open and had come over to see what was going on.  He really got into helping me.  We got the one in the classroom finished and were just about finished with the one in the lounge when we realized that we would miss the temple 10 o'clock session if we did get out of there.  Abraham, who is Scott's friend, said he would finish as he didn't think the job I had done was good enough.  Cute.

Well, when we showed up for our nine o'clock meeting this morning we were met not only by our boss, Ngatai, but by our bigger boss, Wayne who is over all CES for the Pacific, and by the new S&I coordinator for Vanuatu.  So much for good communication.  Nice to have the rooms looking sort-of good, however.  They wanted to use our institute for their area coordinators meetings this week.  Too bad we are using the institute Tuesday afternoon/evening, Thursday afternoon/evening, and Saturday night.  They will have to hold their meetings at the college.