FINALLYYYY.

After over 35 hours in transit I’ve arrived in Fiji. This was by far the longest trip of my life and I was dead exhausted. Flight from LA to NY (5 hours), waiting in LAX for 6ish hours, flight to Auckland New Zealand (12 hours), waiting in New Zealand another 5 hours, 3 hour flight to Nadi, THEN after finally getting to Fiji I expected a 2 hour bus ride to Suva. Nope. 5 HOUR bus ride! I was so exhausted beyond belief. Apparently I had forgot to tell my professor when I was arriving so even she had no clue. Luckily she booked the hotel for the night for me. I worked on my Gozo paper and bit and then fell dead asleep.

This morning I found a message under my door from Karen to charge breakfast to the room (Union’s tab). I walked around Suva a bit – spoke to some overly friendly Fijians (research here is going to be a ton easier than Gozo – I can tell already). I thought something was up with over friendliness, but most were good hearted except for one guy who started to carve my name onto a mask and knife to sell to me. I quickly just walked away. But then I got back and finally met up with the group – had lunch and now I’m back!

~ by roamingnome on August 25, 2008.