The First Week in Fiji is Almost Over and I Head Home a Week From Today.....

…..despite the fact nobody expected us here until next week.  We have a student from Papua New Guinea (actually Australian); one from New Zealand; and one from Fiji.  Three of us flew in on separate flights, weren’t met at the airport; made our way to Suva independently; and met at the hotel Monday morning.  The student from Guam didn’t make it at all.

Despite that, we’re off and going and it means I’ll probably have a five day work week with the weekend off now and I’m trying to arrange something tour-wise for Saturday.

Suva is the capital of Fiji and is an old colonial (British) town with some really neat and picturesque old colonial buildings along the “Parade,” or main street along the harbor coast.  The water and beaches here are not the pristine you see in the tour guides but it is a really nice and pleasant place.  Yesterday, I walked down to the national museum which is very small but very nice.  This is a good place to relax and vacation.

One major surprise is the weather.  Days are sunny and very nice but not too hot.  The evenings, however, are actually cool to the point people on the patio at the hotel are wearing long pants and sweaters.  This really surprised me.

My first week, for better or worse, is almost finished.  We’ll see what Week 2 brings.  In the meantime, I hope to get a good tour this weekend………