Another week, another weekend and another island. End of second week in Fiji already. A busy week with lots of noisy children at kindergarten, I think you need to be partially deaf to work there full time!! They're excited as they finish their school year in the next couple of weeks. Had a long boat journey to the north of the Yasawa Islands, passing many islands and little resorts along the way. None of the islands is big enough to have proper docking for the ...

So first weekend here and what to do?? Well get the other two weekends planned of course. Myself and another volunteer (Esther, from Switzerland) are staying with the same host family so makes sense to do things together. We spent Saturday morning at Port Denarau getting everything planned and had lunch there - a welcome break from Indian food all the time (it's all our host family cook). Saturday afternoon we went and used the Hilton hotel pool and sun beds -...

Arrived at second stint of volunteering, time is flying by! Staying with a Fijian family of Indian descent about 5-10 mins walk from the office along a residential road. I'm working at a kindergarten across the other side of town in a village called Nawaka, so in the morning it's a 10 mins walk to bus stop, then 2 bus rides (70cents each) to get to the school by 8am - yep all those early starts at Lloyds are coming back and it's back to getting up early. It's g...