New Zealand Visitors - April

April 2008

Visits from New Zealand

This week we have enjoyed several New Zealand Visitors. Firstly a group of 10 students and 2 teachers from St Andrews College in Christchurch . These student got to experience life as a student at Onesua College. One day they joined with students for every party of daily life beginning with duties at 5:30 am! By 9:30pm that night they were exhausted. They boys helped Roger one morning at Ebule clearing land for a garden an they helped in the library, preschool and at a local school. On their final day the boys performed a great haka in front of the school .

We have also enjoyed a week with Roger’s nephew Heath here for a week of his school holidays from Kristen School in Albany. He was able also to experience classes at Onesua, help Roger at Ebule and go snorkelling everyday . We also had a few special trips with him. The first – on Anzac day ----was to a war museum jut up the road from here. The museum itself was in very bad repair but we had the amazing experience of going out in a dinghy to a spot where we could snorkel over a war plane. In only 2 metres of water it was an amazing experience. Even David was able to go under to touch the tail. Roger of course went right inside to sit in the pilots seat an prepare for takeoff.

The following day the Principal of Onesua took us over to his home Island- Nguna. Here we had an amazing day snorkelling, diving swimming as well as a lovely local lunch of pawpaw, rice, fish and banana.

Our NZ visitors also left us with several treats – chocolate, marmite, dried fruit and even a bag of potatoes! And hopefully we left them with some good experiences of Vanuatu