We visited Seaside School and meet with the new Principal 

and we found the Library was open and a 

teacher and her class were inside.

It was great to see that the Library is now open

A librarian will soon be employed after

her librarian course which is starting Monday.

We had a disaster of our own 

old faithful our fridge gave up and died.

We have a number of things dying on us lately.

so we had to get another pretty quickly !!

and some of  gloria's students helped to clean the fridge.

This flower arrangement was put together 

by our receptionist , Yvonne!!  

Thanks Yvonne they look great 

We are heading back to Port Vila,

today on 28 Feb 2018

their is plenty of empty seats on today's flight

This is our flat at Sutherland house,

we now need to uncover everything which we 

had prepared for any cyclones that may have come

while we were away.

We even put items in the fridge to keep them dry

The fridge is on and running but it is not freezing

we will need to get this looked at.

The washing machine is another dry place for when 

cyclones come .

we found mould on the pillows 

so we will need to buy some more pillows today

Here are some of the creatures Gloria found 

while she was cleaning the flat, they are !

"All Dead" 

You don't want to get a bite from these centipede

they have a very nasty bite 

The flat has been cleaned 

so we are now off to get some food!

I got the quad bike back and its up and running

Gloria's 1996 Nissan Bluebird is leaving 

to be recycled and return as a 

2018 BMW 

A sad day to see old faithful go

Tonight we are at the graduation of the leaders 

and participants of Vakameasina course which has been 

running at the NMIT training centre in Blenheim

We are with one of the leaders 

who comes from Taula training centre 

on the Island of Santo

I was asked to present the certificates to the Leaders 

on behalf of Seasonal Solution 

The men sang a Vanuatu song in appreciation 

for the awards that were given 

We are with Rev Mike Hawke.

we went to Nelson to visit him last week to catch up

He came and stayed with us when cyclone PAM hit in 2015

Sunday get together 

The men returning from a day's fishing 

Sunday lunch with some of the men

Gloria and Gideon (he is from Port Vila)

Gloria was teaching with his sister in Malasi tabu

school in freshwater Port Vila.

Here we are delivering pay slips to the RSE workers 

we are doing Pastoral Care visits for our friend Jean

who is on holiday.

This year the men are driving newer vans 

Cyclone Gita heading towards NZ

Tonight we had a chief's meeting

for the RSE Vineyard men.

Most of these men will be heading to central Otago this month 

before returning to Vanuatu in April

 In Blenheim the men have a competition running 

the cleanest house gets $150 

this chief is receiving the awarded for the cleanest house

Cyclone Gita Cat 5 

over Tonga

A London double decker bus is

in Blenheim and is used for the Cruise boat passengers 

Gloria is on this London double decker bus

The new steam train runs between Picton and Blenheim.

Melva is handing over some funds that

the Rural Women of NZ want to donate 

towards Rongdale school in

Vanuatu

Gloria  I were able to share today, with friends 

at a rest home, what our work is like in Vanuatu.