In less than a month we hit the one year mark in Fiji! It is crazy that Sabeto, Fiji, has now been the place our family has been most settled since before COVID. It has been a year full of new experiences, learning, places and friendships. Our kids rarely complain about the heat anymore and we’re no longer surprised by the random goats, dogs, horses, cows, potholes or piles of gravel in the middle of the road. We’ve become accustomed to a pace where things often go slower than you’d prefer and plans always change. But there is a certain beauty to experience in this culture by taking things slower and embracing the unexpected changes. Fiji time, sega na leqa, no worries! Koa and Kaila were happy to pose for a photo with us. Rainy season We are told that this year's rainy season was worse than normal, I’m also grateful it was not as bad as New Zealand’s. It seemed like New Zealand got the weather that we were expecting. We found ourselves with daily floods, where the sky would go dar
At times it feels pretty relentless. I often hear myself saying, “Crazy day, crazy week, crazy life.” Every day is an adventure, every day unexpected things happen, life barely goes to plan… you just need to take a breath, throw all expectations out the window and just do what you can on the day! We are now right in the middle of our first full dry season in Fiji. That means, it is the best time for building projects and teams from New Zealand are super keen to escape the cold and warm up in Fiji and so we are keeping super busy! Mothers Day at Living Way Church One year in Fiji, three years with MMM We have now completed a year in Fiji making it three years in total working for MMM. We feel like, in the last year particularly, life has been a constant learning curve of so many different people, places, culture, language and way of doing things. We seem to have specialised in transition, change and new beginnings in the last three years, but our hope is that we are able to settle into
As I sit snuggled in a big duvet and sipping a hot lemon and honey drink, it reminds me that we are back in a very different world to the one we have been living in this year. This week we have been tackling a bit of reverse culture shock as we reintegrate back into New Zealand life while also fighting a bout of COVID, forever disrupting our plans. It is super frustrating to have had plans ruined yet again from COVID when we have been looking forward to this week for so long. We have missed Roy’s family Christmas and a visit to Tauranga to see good friends; we are not sure if we will be able to reschedule these plans as we head down to Kāpiti and have commitments down there. We are praying that a bit of enforced rest now after a busy year will mean we are healthy and able to do everything else we want to do during our time in New Zealand. Dinner out with our last team for the year at the Boatshed in Vuda. Seeing New Zealand through the eyes of a Fijian! It is funny the way you just a
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