Pray for my laptop!
It’s Monday morning and sadly still waiting for my laptop to be repaired. Even though the repairman at Datec was Indian, he was clearly still on Fiji Time. I really hope that later today it will be done. Then I can start the painstaking process of reinstalling programs, rediscovering my favorites, and possibly recategorizing my music (which will take weeks, if not months). That’s if my music was recovered even. The tech guy called me last Thursday to tell me how the backup would only include “important documents” (aka my school work folder). I told him in return sternly how I was a DJ who needed the music for my livelihood. I figured it was a good quick thinking response. He reluctantly agreed. But it’s not like I’m not paying him for his service. I really just have to pray that it’s all good for if not I’d be devastated beyond all belief. This is after right before leaving Fiji loosing more than a year’s worth of photos when my external hard drive went ballistic. I’m hoping I can still recover that data when I return to the states. Right now I just want to be back with my laptop and listen to some comfort music, haha.
What’s been up though since last week? This weekend I got to practice my billiards skills. If anyone asks – I’m amazing. Other than that, Friday we had our third scuba diving lesson where we did some underwater SkIlLz like taking off the weight belt underwater, removing the entire vest and scuba gear underwater, using an alternate air source, and shooting up to the water without breathing from your BCD.
The next two weeks we have to collect two life histories. That should be interesting. On Wednesday, there is a huge concert downtown from Digicell who are now being intrdouced as a new mobile service here in Fiji. Besides some big Kiwi act, Sean Kingston is coming! That should be a lot of fun and probably packed as he is really popular here.
Saturday night after returning from Pacific Harbor, the whole Union group went down to Trap’s bar. My host brother came too, as well as Laura’s brother, sister, and tavale (cross cousins). It was a ton of fun and there’s a lot of crazy pictures. There was a particular gang of cross dressers that were having a load of fun in the crowd. We being terrible people could not stop laughing. But that’s a relatively common sight here in Fiji. There’s even a commercial for hairspray here on TV that has a drag queen mixed in with women showing of their hairstyles.
That’s enough for now.
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