This weekend was really relaxing, we went to a beach resort 4hrs 30mins away, and the boat ride was one of the bumpiest EVER, one of our volunteers was sick and once we arrived everyone was feeling not too good. We did two trips while we were there, the first was snorkelling in some caves - which are quite famous in fiji! However me and Iris only made it into the first as you have to go in an underwater tunnel to get to the second and we really didnt fancy it. Plus it didnt help that we saw an eel in the water- really freaked me out!! I said to Iris...just think of this as an I'm a celebrity challenge!! That afternoon we also had a trip to the blue lagoon (another famous place of fiji) where we did more snorkelling, its reknowned for it there. We keep seeing lots of bright blue star fish, they are really cool!! The boat ride home wasnt as bad as the way out. We have discovered fiji's peanut cookies and so they kept me going!

Today was our first day back at the school for this week. We are really loving it and we still have the teacher for our class which is so much better!! She really appreciates our help :) It rained loooooads last night in nadi and so the school field was really wet and there were frogs! Some people picked them up and I was like ewww dont get them near me, however...BAD IDEA!! The kids then picked up on this (and not just kids from our class, some older kids too as it was break time) and so they kept cupping their hands and pretending they had frogs and throwing them at me. Some picked up rocks instead so I actually couldnt tell if they were joking or not. They found it hilarious and in the end I just had to laugh along too!

Next weekend Saula is looking into booking us a trip to Suva (the capital). Some of the volunteers are getting their scuba diving qualifications this week so they can do the shark dive (afraid to say natalie and helen im not - i would be if it was in a cage but this is shark feeding whilst scuba diving...no cage....nutin!!) So while they are doing that saturday we are hopefully going to Suva and there is a place there that the others have been to where there is a huuuuge waterfall and a rope swing to jump into the water. Sounds amazing so thats definately on our list of things to do. We have managed to squeeze in so much so far, money is going quickly however when you convert it to english its a mighty BARGAIN!! Our weekend trip cost FD$285 however converted to english thats about just less than 100 pounds (you divide by 3) and that included, all food (3 cooked meals a day - they eat looooads in fiji) , a 4.5hr boat trip, three days and two nights at this resort where our accomodation was a house on a beautiful white sandy beach! not bad i say :)

Note to natalie and helen when you are in fiji there is something called a Bula Pass (dont know if i have mentioned it before) which takes you around loads of islands -well as many as you like. I shall bring back info and the best ones to go to. Bounty island is still my fav, apparently Beachcomber is a party island so I shall keep you informed as people try them.

Anyway while update again soon

Lots of love xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

p.s. mum did you tell Grandad C about the blog??