From my journal: April 3, 2010 I will be coming home soon, but I just wanted to add one more comment. I have just finished reading Surviving Paradise by Peter Rudiak-Gould, another World Teach volunteer who wrote about his experiences from a few years ago. It’s very entertaining and I can relate to a lot of [...]
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From my journal: March 30, 2010 It’s really hard to think that in just two months, I’ll be leaving, that I’ll no longer spend the afternoons having hilarious conversations with Niriti, I won’t get to speak Marshallese, and worst of all, I won’t be a teacher at Ine Elementary. Time is going by unbelievably fast. I [...]
From my journal: April 3, 2010 I want to tell you about a great experience I had last night that will probably remain one of my favorite moments of the past year and a half. Niriti and I both decided we were sick of eating rice, so for dinner I offered to put together a meal [...]
From my journal: March 30, 2010 The World Teach radio in Majuro is broken; at check-in I can only hear about half of what my field director is saying so I’m not getting much in the way of news. My family’s radio which I used last year to listen to the BBC World Report has gone [...]
From my journal: March 18, 2010 Yesterday during recess a jet flew high over Ine leaving behind it a trail of puffy exhaust in a long line across the sky. All the students rushed outside to stare and point at the strange cloud. They all looked genuinely worried and a little scared because they didn’t know [...]
From my journal: March 14, 2010 Last night a chicken fell in the well and drowned. Stupid chicken – but thanks, because I got to eat you for lunch! Last week I finally got to eat dog. I’ve been telling my family that I really wanted to try it and to let me know the next [...]
From my journal: March 29, 2010 Thank you to everyone who sent birthday and Easter packages. They actually arrived in Ine on the same day because we didn’t have a boat for a week or so due to bad weather, and a scandal involving the captain who allowed some drunk people to come to Ine which [...]
From my journal: March 6, 2010
Here are a couple of small observations that made me smile this week. One day, during 6/7th grade, the students all pointed to my head and said “Airport!” So I looked up and saw a spider descending on a thread of its web about to land on my head, the spider [...]
From my journal: March 6, 2010
Yesterday, we held our school’s first ever spelling bee and field day in honor of Education Week. Last year we didn’t do anything for Education Week because we had two funerals the same week, and our school has never done anything in the past. So this year I wanted to plan [...]
From my journal: March 6, 2010
We just had quite an eventful week with two kemems (1st birthday parties), and a spelling bee and field day that I organized for Education Week. (I’ll post more on the spelling bee later. )
The first kemem was really big, the biggest I’ve been to yet. It was for the adopted daughter of [...]
From my journal: February 6, 2010
I had a fantastic surprise today! A couple of my World Teach friends from Majuro showed up in Ine today on a chartered boat. One of the girls brought her parents along who were here visiting from the States, and also a bunch of her Marshallese high school students. So it [...]
From my journal: February 3, 2010
Currently, all the stores in Ine are out of meat because the weather has been cold and windy so no one is going fishing. Therefore, more people are eating canned meat, depleting the stores’ supplies. The waves on the ocean have also been really big and rough, preventing the Roxanna boat [...]
From my journal: February 3, 2009
Last week we had two birthday parties at the school. The first party was for the 4/5th grade teacher, Thumbelina. She brought in big speakers and we had a dance party while listening to a great dancy hip-hop band from Ebeye called E-Style on someone’s Ipod (yes, a couple of people [...]
From my journal: February 2, 2009
I have more information about those awful ripelles that I wrote about back in November. They weren’t actually doing their work in Arno. Unfortunately, they were doing their project right here in Ine and all staying in Jabo. So I got to see what they were up to.
In theory, it [...]
From my journal: January 24, 2010
I have an announcement to make. My life back home will have to wait another year. I have accepted a position with WorldTeach in American Samoa next year.
I love teaching and I really like WT’s philosophies. I am excited to live on a Pacific island that is not an atoll. [...]
From my journal: January 24, 2010
The weather has finally turned and it seems that the rainy season has passed. We still have the strong winds which should stick around until April or May, but now we’re mostly having dry sunny days. So now it’s time to start thinking about saving water. I’ve started using well [...]
From my journal: January 24, 2010
Things have been pretty hectic this past month with Christmas, going to Majuro for midservice, and then Sarah’s visit. But now that Sarah has left, I’m getting back into my normal routine. So I’m taking this quiet Sunday afternoon to catch up on my writing.
Christmas in Ine was the usual [...]
Guest Post: Sarah
I had to catch the boat to go back to Majuro on a Friday, so Rachel took the day off and instead we arranged to go to the school at recess and throw candy to the kids. It’s like a pinata, but cutting straight to the good part. The kids went crazy scrambling [...]
Guest Post: Sarah
Snorkeling is definitely a ripelle thing to do. They don’t even have a Marshallese word for it; they use the same word as for spear fishing. So when we head down to the dock with our snorkel gear, everyone jokingly asks if we’re going to bring back dinner, but we say we’re [...]
Guest Post: Sarah
Rachel and I took a weekend trip to Arno, Arno – a village on the other end of the island where Ine is located. We took the Roxana boat Friday afternoon (yay! more boat time! Actually, this time it was early and Rachel had to cancel afternoon class so we could hustle to [...]
Guest Post: Sarah
Rachel had to teach on the weekdays while I was visiting, so I went to school with her most of the time. I sat up in the front corner of the classroom where I could watch (and help or participate when appropriate =) Most of the kids already knew who [...]
Guest Post: Sarah
The night I arrived I met Rachel’s host family (in case you don’t remember from reading her previous entries, there is the father and mother–or baba and mama–except mama was in Majuro because a grandchild was being born so I didn’t meet her until the end of my trip; then there is [...]
Guest Post: Sarah
Yokwe! This is Sarah — I’m Rachel’s sister and I just got back from visiting Rachel for 2 1/2 weeks. I wanted to share a little with everyone about my trip over a few guest postings.
It was a long flight over, with an 8 hour overnight layover in the Honolulu airport [...]
From my journal: November 30, 2009
I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from the Marshall Islands. With all the sunshine and palm trees it doesn’t feel too much like the Christmas season, but all the stores in Majuro are decked out in tinsel and lights and other big [...]
From my journal: November 29, 2009
Now Libby’s trip is over and she’s heading back to America tomorrow night, but, of course, she couldn’t leave without one last Marshallese adventure: getting to Majuro from Ine.
The problem started with a big group of ripelles (white non-islanders) who were in Jabo working on a project and [...]
From my journal: November 29, 2009
Having Libby here was really exciting for me and everyone in Ine. She came to school every day to watch me teach. She sat in the back of the class and knitted which was really fascinating for everyone. They haven’t seen anything like knitting before.
We went [...]
From my journal: November 29, 2009
My friend Libby has been here for the past two weeks so I haven’t had a chance to write until now. In fact, I am in Majuro now to see Libby off. She leaves tomorrow night. We are currently sitting on the back patio of one [...]
From my journal: November 12, 2009
I had a very Marshallese adventure last weekend. The Christmas season is now in full swing here in Ine. I have started practicing singing and dancing for the Christmas festivities every night at the church with a group called Youth made up of all the 20-something-year-olds in [...]
From my journal: November 12, 2009
I know I said I was going to try and not write about school all the time, but I have made an amazing breakthrough with my 6th/7th grade class which I am super happy about and I just have to share. As you may recall, this was my [...]
From my journal: November 12, 2009
It seems like you all heard more about the earthquakes and tsunamis than I did. That doesn’t surprise me. I actually didn’t hear about it until after the tsunami warnings had passed. My field director informed us all at our weekly Monday radio check-in, so it’s [...]
From my journal: October 24, 2009
I made my first handicraft jewelry today! Lots of people are making all kinds of amemono (handicrafts) right now which they will take to Majuro in November to sell in the handicraft shops. My friend Cathy and host sister Niriti are making earrings so I went to [...]
From my journal: October 20, 2009
The weather is changing here; it feels more fall-like, as much as that is possible for the Marshall Islands. The winds have picked up again and are now blowing strongly off the lagoon all the time, which brings such lovely relief from the heat. I even get [...]
From my journal: October 19, 2009
Just a quick note. The seeds I planted seem to be growing! There are a few small sprouts coming up in each of the flower pots. I suppose they could be weeds – hard to tell at this stage – but I’m still excited that something [...]
From my journal: October 19, 2009
I have found a new favorite spot to spend my free time and get some precious alone time. Behind my house down by the lagoon is a huge gnarled old tree with a nice shady, sandy spot beneath it. To enjoy the cool breeze coming off the [...]
From my journal: October 18, 2009
I’ve been in kind of a slump for the past couple of weeks because we’ve been missing a lot of school recently for funerals. Yes, we just finished up yet another funeral last night. So we had no school again Wed, Thurs and Friday. But this [...]
From my journal: October 8, 2009
Let’s add funerals to the list of things I always write about, along with food and teaching. Yes, we are in the middle of yet another funeral. I won’t go into the details of the rituals because they’re essentially the same from funeral to funeral: the [...]
From my journal: September 28, 2009
Now for some better news! This past weekend I got to take my first jambo (trip) to see another part of Arno Atoll. I, along with twenty or thirty other villagers from Ine and Matolen, piled into two boats to go to Tutu, a small island on [...]
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