Scary Suva

Made it to the homestay! The family is awesome. Truly couldn't ask for a better situation. My Na and Ta (Mom and Dad) are caterers so clearly they can cook. My roommate from Nadi, Fiji is also my roommate here (probably because she is gluten-free) so it's great that I have a familiar face! When we first got to Suva (where we are now) we participated in a traditional Fijian welcome ceremony where we drank Kava. Pretty crazy since Kava is pretty much like a drug (it makes your tounge numb and gives you a small buzz but if you drink too much you act wasted!) after our instructors gave us the kava we meet our Na and she took us back to our house for the week.

I can't say this enough, the house is incredible. The four of us are staying in their guest house where we have a kitchen, bathroom, living room and two bedrooms with two beds each.

Dinner was out of this world. Ta made me an omlet that words cannot describe, then there was cooked potatos and carrots, green beans, bread, salad and chocolate cake! We had some family time after dinner but then they let us go to bed since we have an early morning and we had done the sanddoons that day.

Now's the scary part. You see the guest house doesn't have locks on the doors so the trouble started when Sasha and I were telling stories and we heard someone walk in. Or we think we did. We decided there is no way both of us could have imagined it. So we sat as still as we could for ten minutes. During this time we heard footsteps breathing and creaks in the floor! Finally we got up the nerve to go and see if anything was there. Wgen sasha turned on the light it flikered for a good 2 minutes before turning on. We were living out a horror movie. It turned out to be just us and our snoring roommates. Regardless. So scary. We decided to play a movie on my computer until it died. Movie of choice? Cats and dogs. Only seconds after it started ALL the neighborhood dogs started going crazy. Barking and carrying on. Oops. But hilarious and a perfect end to a scary night.