Saturday, September 27, 2008

Savaii Day 7 - Safua Hotel

We had a free day today. It was so nice just to be able to do stuff on our own time.

Anela and I went to the market after lunch today. We had to catch a bus to the market, which basically just meant flagging one down on the side of the road. They really don’t have any bus stops, you just get on when you can catch one, and get off whenever you want.

We met up with Bridget, Sarah, and Catherine after lunch, and we all went to the waterfall again. We had to catch a couple busses to take us all the way to the waterfall, and the whole time I was thinking about how cool it was that we were all wandering around a foreign country by ourselves, taking busses to who knows where lol. Kind of unnerving too, but still exhilarating.

Since this was a non-CCSP sponsored event, we were able to jump off high rocks. And so we did. One jump was about 30 ft up!!! Ahh that was so scary, but sooo much fun. I totally forgot to pencil dive into the water though, so I landed on my leg and got this really gnarly bruise all down my thigh. Doesn’t hurt now, but it’s already dark shades of purple and red and it’s all swollen. Looks terrible. But totally worth it. :)


We had our fiafia for the hotel tonight, since they don’t dance on Sunday. The guys all got up and did a war dance, which was really funny, and we sang some songs for them. They all gave us lavalavas at the end. It was a pretty fun night.

Leah

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Leah, this all sounds like so much fun! I can't wait to catch up with you at the end of the semester.