Classroom view number 1

Classroom view number 2

Shoes outside house along with one of the many dogs around (dinner of defender, I'm not sure)

First trip to Nan Madol in crowded CRX... Emily, Kate, Lucas (not pictured, Regina, Veronica, and Nick)

Sunset view from our front porch

Dial This Up
So the adventure of being in the boonies (I use this as a term of endearment, just for clarification) never ends. We finally got our phone hooked up which is great, so now we can call other volunteers (if they ever would get their phones hooked up) and locals if need be. With the phone line comes the ability to get onto the Internet via dial-up. This puts me back to younger years when the Internet was built for dial-up. These days though, everything seems to overwhelm us with images, both still and moving, and just huge files that take eons to download. It's good though for basics, like checking email and doing small, quick searches. I guess that is if the dial-up actually works. It seems that with so much here, you have to try at least four times to make anything actually connect and work. Then of course, it kicks you off for hangs up before you were finished. So although I am appreciative to have access to my email because of the lack of access to town, it is sometimes and often probably more frustrating than exciting.
Getting into town too has been thus far quite an adventure. With the rising cost of gas, most taxi drivers don't want to drive the 30-45 minutes up to the PATS campus where we live. So, with at least six or seven taxi companies and what seems like at least a hundred drivers, there is probably only 2 or 3 who will drive to our home. Add onto that fact that the cost is $8-10 each way and it seems that going into town will have to be on an as needed basis, if only because of the cost (I think that the waiting game for taxis, and I'm talking like waiting for 2-3 hours to get a ride that you call for, while being a test of my patience, is not that bad, in fact, it's probably a good counter-lesson to the frantic pace of life most of us experience in the states). I was seriously thinking about buying myself a little motorbike or scooter or something to be able to get around, but things like that are generally way out of my budget range even on the mainland with a steady paying job.

The pictures here are of my classroom and some other random things, not in any particular order though.