November 30

Last night after the dance, we were making sure that everyone had a ride home when someone told us we had a huge group of young adults walking home to Lami which is a more than 3 mile walk.  We threw the two girls from Tamavua who needed a ride home and raced to find those walking to Lami.  Sure enough there were 12 of them.  We loaded them in the van and got them to Lami.  Back tracked to Suva.  While going up the road to Tamavua we ended up picking up another six young adults.  The first we saw was a group of four who refused a ride, but told us there were two woman we did not see as we passed them who would want a ride.  We turned around and they gladly accepted a ride.  Driving up the hill once again, we noticed a young woman and and a young man who refused the ride.  As we drove away one of the girls in the van mentioned that the two who had refused were "cuddling".  Not good.  When we got to the original four we had seen, I told Scott to stop.  I then just told them to get into the van and we would take them home.  Anirudh was in this group and he told us that he could not get in because the girl back down the road that would not get in the van was his responsibility.  We told him to get in, turned around for the second time and went back down the hill.  By the time we got to the "cuddling" couple, my inner mother had come out.  I rolled my window down, pointed at the girl and told her to get in the van.  Her eyes got wide, but she did get in the van.  The boy lives just off the main road so he walked home.  Turning around we started up the hill for the third time.

By the time everyone was delivered and we arrived home it was 2:00 a.m.  We are really too old for this!

We were up by 7 a.m. to get ready for the service project at 9:30.  Willie met us at 9 at the institute.  We loaded all the fruit (six cases), the water, and headed to the Bowling Club for the kick off ceremony.  When we got there Mr. Narayan told us that had done it at 8:00 and to just go ahead to Suva Point and start cleaning.  We passed people in blue FMF shirts cleaning around the Suva Bowling Club.  We saw 100 or more police men and woman cleaning the shore about half way to Suva point. 

Seventy + YSAs, the Jacksons, The Qaqa family participated in the clean up service project.