This marks our one year anniversary in Vanuatu.  It’s a long blog but if you want, just skip to the random photos at the end.  With apologies to Jerry and Linda, my camera’s battery died and I didn’t have my charger with me.  This is my second entry today but is more timely posted. 13 [...]

I thought I had posted these back in July but alas! I didn’t push the button.  This is our picture chronicle of Maggie’s visit with us.  Hope it generates some interest in the other children.  We’ll see. I’m not going to write too much on this one but post photos of Maggie’s trip to Vanuatu.  [...]

This is Ed’s blog entry. Beth said I had to say that.  Photos are uploaded at the end to the extent I can.  April ____, 2010 Why I haven’t blogged in so long? It’s because I wasn’t really doing anything but waiting in Vila while I was on a phantom sick leave. It was not [...]

  Sometimes things change around here because of forces beyond yourself and sometimes they just happen because of yourself. We’ve been here in Port Vila for 2 weeks now living out of a hotel room and surprising to both of us we are ready to go back to island. Perhaps being here has made us [...]

Well I have let Ed write all our news but I thought I should let you know I am still here with him.  I am fumbling my way through.  Okay I have not done any of the things I have said I would do like get a goat and chickens and build an oven to [...]

Note: January 31, 2010 – The photos attached are random ones that go back as far as training village in October. It’s very difficult to upload pictures with the inadequate bandwidth on the internet service. We are in Vila right now and have a much stronger connection (when it works which is about ½ the [...]

12/17/09 10:16:23 AM I had the notion to describe a typical workday for me. It is starting to settle into a routine, if you want to call it that, because you must always be ready for contingencies, exigencies and emergencies. Describing my day is akin to asking someone how old they are? If you get an [...]

Beth here. Mentally am getting ready for the next phase…going to Ambae. I am excited about: Getting to set up house. Today and tomorrow we will be buying everything we need. I want to make this place a home for us. I want it to be a place we enjoy staying. Not just a place [...]

Beth here Everyone must know that Ed wrote that last blog. This will be my perspective of our training. Sorry no pictures. Well I guess I am as far away from home as I can get without being on another planet. We are actually 16 hours into the future but feel I have stepped [...]

November 8, 2009 I could write for days on what has happened since we arrived here on September 13. We were told by other volunteers that the days would go slow but that time would go fast. True. So far my biggest frustration is getting used to island time and I really don’t think I’ve [...]

Beth Here. I will attempt to write my  blog in italics so there will be some visible difference to distinguish between Ed’s and my entries. Okay.  Why am I doing this Peace Corps thing?  I must write it down.  Suddenly all the farewell parties and sadness of leaving everyone behind has clouded my purpose in becoming a peace [...]

My first entry and we just learned there won’t be many more for a while. Yesterday we received an email describing our first few months in Vanuatu, the training months. While most of it is exciting to us, one particularly distressing item is that we will not have access to computers or internet for the [...]