We have our first harvest

from the KIWI garden, fresh,  and only 4  weeks from planting to eating 

MY hair goes crazy in the  wet and hot weather ...

Its so nice to work in a clean dry room when its raining hard outside.

 Saturday, a new student, Natalie who lives next door,  asked if we could help, with her homework.

                           

                                                    I helped her with her Reading,

   
                      While Neville helped her with her MATHS,  she was very happy and thankful.

This guy, has his work cut out,

to mow this lawn  at

(Independence park)

This week Gloria was taken to Physio at VCH by DR Jeni, 

to see what the problem was, with pains in her Hip and back

I am very happy to find out its not my HIP 

Gloria and Annette's reading  class on Tuesday got them rather wet again, so   

Gloria was given the room next door to move to, at the Korvan Centre.  for her after school 

classroom, They set it up yesterday ready for Thursday's students,

 a promotion to the Principle's office.  

The old classroom 

got very wet,  every time it rained,

as the water would come thru the ceiling panels and light. 

A few resourse's were lost. 

Neville's team are doing patch up repair's

on the roof at Twin Cain's

A new roof is being planned,  to replace 

this old roof

When we were at Jensen house, we heard running water, 

and went to investigate,

and found the shower pipe 

was disconnected 

This centipede is something you don't want 

in your house let alone 

in the bedroom

Good Friday we were invited  to Lunch at Bladinar  with the Mr Willie and family

Lunch was prepared local style in the cookhouse.

Menu was Local Fish, Wild Yam, Rice and Island cabbage  

Willies Mother Mamma Winnie prepared a special fruit drink in a blender, 

 of Mango and Paw Paw 

with  no added Sugar 

25 Family members live here,

 so a special table was set for us to dine at.  

Aleisha was very happy, she got to dine with us.

Lending a Helping Hand

Hannagh  from Telmar who is overdue for her baby, was moved to Sutherland House Flat 3 during Cyclone Cook,  as it is very close to the Hospital.  Suffering from a bad toothache I took her to the Dental Dept, Grabbed Dr Samuel and we place a dressing in her tooth. She will have her tooth out after the baby is born

                       Good Friday Dinner we invited them in to share some local and kiwi food,
                                                 and made some special friends.

Martyn & I delivering more cement to 

Epule to complete the septic tank

The Avocado's are large here

Teachers are in the new Duplex's at Epule and

are now cleaning their yards and planting food

This ford seems to be a good place to wash your vehicle

This 6000 ltr water tank was donated by 

Rotary Blenheim

its now on a concrete base

We repaired this toilet cistern for one of the 

office staff at PCV

she was soooo happy !!!

I was shown what the locals do to their young 

Banana trees to protect them in cyclone cook

they cut off the leaves

This is the latest image 

of TC Cook

near New Caledonia

Their seems to be a lot happening 

in the South Pacific

I hope the red arrow is indicating it's a Cat 3

and not the new direction of TC Cook

it time to remove some of the water 

that has found its way in

This is the 3rd bucket of water removed today

from the bed rooms

Gloria is cooking a Pizza for the people upstairs and

us for lunch.

All wet outside but a nice lunch is on 

its way yummmy 

as the storm hit I went out and put some 

black plastic over the windows

to add protection from the driving rain

These warnings come to your cell phone every hour

This is the tracking map to follow the progress

The humidity is 99%

A wet wet and wet feeling

The latest tracking map 

it seems not to be moving 

just sitting their !!!

Here is an Image of Cyclone Cook

We have just received a red alert warning

winds are at 75km hr and a time of 6- 12 hour duration

for cook to pass

we are getting water inside around the windows

of Sutherland house

we are fine just need to wait out the cyclone 

This is the image on Friday of a Low 

coming past Vanuatu

This is the Image of the Low starting to hit 

Vanuatu

There is a bit of wind & rain around today

we hope it will continue its move south 

and not form a cyclone

A new Image about 3pm on Saturday

Here is a diagram update

so 0500am tomorrow 9/4/17 we should 

see this low head away

the diagram shows a change for L to a 1 at 0500am

maybe a cyclone cat 1 not sure!!

 New Caledonia may get hit 

Todays challenge was Gloria taking the morning lessons English and Maths 

for 35 students.

First it was sort out the footwear so we could get in the door.

Then  the lesson and off to your tables to do your work.

 MATHS lesson, these students finished their maths in record time, then decided to use the play dough to create some face masks. They were Happy to see my reaction, as I was busy marking workbooks, so she wondered over to me, I smiled, and out came my camera.

Then it was off to  the Korvan centre for the afternoon Seaside class, Annette Vincent our PVC partner joined me  in helping the students to read, learn words, and do some puzzles, and she finished the session  with a lovely story.