Tuesday, July 29, 2008
You're never late on island time
Its been a while since I last posted but I've been pretty busy with orientation. Anyway life is good here weekdays are packed with orientation activities and we usually have a trip planned with the World Teach group on the weekends. Last weekend we went to Salapwuk in the south end of the island for a six waterfall hike. The hike was great, first we picked up this local guy to be our guide into the thick interior of the island. I followed him for most of the trip and he chain smoked the whole time while toting a machete doing some trail maintenance. The locals here are hard core they brought their dog ( which looked like it hadn't eaten in a month) and kept throwing it off cliffs into the water and then they would jump into like two feet of water. The waterfalls were amazing we hiked for about an hour through some seriously dense jungle to the first one. We got to go swimming and hang out there for a bit and headed on to the next. The waterfalls kept getting better and we trudged up river to reach the final waterfall where we got to do some cliff jumping (not as good as the res). It was probably my favorite day in Pohnpei so far, I talked to the guide after and he said he could take me on a two day hike to the highest mountain in the interior of the island. So I think I'm going do that at some point this semester. I move out of my host families house and into my house for the year next week, which I'm pretty excited about. I'm also going to start spear fishing with some of the locals once I move into my house on the harbor in Madoleneem. Hope people are actually reading this blog I've yet to see any comments. Anyone that went to Andrews wedding on Saturday I'd love to see some pictures.
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oh he reads and oh he jealous
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