A Trip to the Embassy, Family Drama, and a Broken Laptop
Last week turned out to be a pretty “busy” week in relative Fiji terms. After luckily checking my email Tuesday afternoon after work I found out I had to be at the embassy at 9:45 in the morning for the security check-in. Our interview was scheduled for 2pm, but I guess plans were changed. I met with the Public Diplomacy Officer who was a really nice guy. After our interview, filmed by my cameraman Samuela, who was a really cool guy I even got to go upstairs to the offices. The embassy is relocating soon to comply with the new security standarsd, so the office was in dissiray – Americaaaaaa fuck yeah!
After that we went around central Suva interviewing random people on the street about their opinions on the American elections. We got some interesting responses to say the least.
There’s been some major drama also at my host family recently too. My 15 year old brother Iliconi (aka Tony aka Tweeli) decided he did not want to get on the bus to go to his boarding school, and skipped out going to a friend instead. The family was obviously furious. After finally coming home days later they gave him either the choice of returning to RKS (which is a rather prestigious school here in Fiji) or beign sent home to the village in Kadavu. Last night though when a relative who works at RKS came to take him back to school he was nowhere to be found. They even gave a photo of him to the local police post in case they find him. Major dramarama.
The bad news as of late is that my laptop got a baddd virus on it thanks to a crappy internet cafe I used my USB key in. It ended up transferring a virus to my laptop. When I went back to the cafe to complain all of their computers were out of service. So luckily yesterday I brought it to Datec a computer repair place here in Suva. Hopefully they’ll be able to fix it quickly by …. now.
Quote of the week:
Radio announcer: “If you want to win a free trip to New Zealand to see Chris Brown and Rihanna in concert call now! Or if you just want to see all your relatives who’ve overstayed their visas!”
sooo… once again I was looking around for info about Gozo and the shopping centers (I still haven’t finished my paper… but I will today.) and you’re blog came up. It made me really happy, and then really sad… because I can’t just walk into your room and be like, Brian your stupid blog is friggin everywhere!
Anyways, it sounds like Figi is the shit, and I’m glad you love it, but I miss you tons.
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