Savaii Day 4 - Safua Hotel

We had a free morning, so after breakfast Anela, Laura, and I went to go get icecream and go to a freshwater pool. Apparently there are a lot of underground freshwater rivers that travel through the porous volcanic rock that the island’s made of, so there are natural freshwater pools right next to the ocean. It’s kinda cool, and it’s awesome to swim in when it’s scorching hot out.

Warren took us out for a cliff walk today after lunch. It was kinda windy when we started out, but as we kept on walking along, it got windier and clouds started rolling in and the waves got bigger. By the time we were about a mile in, it started raining a ton. We were right by some blowholes too, so the huge waves just soaked us. It was so much fun. We all sat around the blowhole and got soaked over and over. We were already soaking wet cuz of the pouring rain, so why not? That was a highlight of the day by far.

That’s really all we did today. One of the Samoan guys, Mattai, gave us a Samoan language lesson tonight. I know a few phrases and words now, which is cool. Good start.

I’ve gotten so many mosquito/bug bites since coming here! Even with the bug spray, ugh.

Leah