Gloria made pancakes for Russell as it was his

birthday today, he was so excited to watch Gloria cooking. 

He has broken his arm for the second time a week or two ago.

Notice the table, she is cooking them on the spare tyre to the quad bike 

Thanks Margaret for these clothes which Gloria brought back

to give away on your behalf.

These guys are happy to receive the clothing

Andrew is helping Jennifer with her maths homework 

These chairs have been reserved for Maebry & Graeme Reid

and Gloria & I for the 10th Anniversary of 

Seaside Community School

Here is a photo of staff and present and past Principals

Customs dancers went thru the streets of Seaside 

leading the students & teachers around the community

Here is one of Gloria's after school students 

who she has helped to read 

Here is Andrew and Paul both from NZ

and are over here for different reasons:

Paul is on holiday and Andrew is about to 

go to South West Bay school Malakula Island.

This is the floor slab of the Macses school 3 new classrooms

we hope this is completed by September 2018

Mr Kim is now building a toilet block for Macses School

"it is a long drop type toilet"

Two cubicle's for girls, 1 for boys and 1 for teachers.

We may be looking at this design for other bush schools

Here is the present toilet at the school

It's a quick cuppa before Paul heads back to the family

who are on the zip line in the adventure park

Thanks Paul for coming around this morning

As for Andrew & I its back to Sutherland house 

for a rest and lunch

The men we will be having a Meat night to dinner

Some photos from around and about Vanuatu

My Uncle & Aunty are returning back to their cruise boat

in Port Vila harbour

They started the fire to cook our 

food at Siviri Village 

it started out being a bit smoky as they heating the rocks

It is amazing what you find in the village Schools

miles away from the main centres. 

"a full drum set"

I spend many hours driving along these roads in

North Malakula Island last month.

Here is a bungalow that you can rent for the night 

this one is on the island of Efate, this one is not too far from Vila 

and is on the beach 

Here is one of the ladies from Siviri village 

preparing our Lap lap lunch which will be cooked on the 

hot rocks

There dome houses are a trial building 

Many of the Government vehicles are made in China

the Govt vehicles have a G proceeding the number

Paul & Jenny with their son are here on holiday

from Nelson

We started laying our water tank base today 

it will hold the 1100 ltr tank for the container kitchens

Water tank site for these containers kitchens

We needed to empty the water tank before moving to the new site

so we were able to take the water to Yowell's place

Here is the tank thats needs to be moved

This is a picture of a bush hand washing station that Annette 

has demonstrated to the Village health students 

These boys have made these" trucks"

a wheel on the end of a stick which they can 

control with a small stick midway up the pole

One of our home groups led by Rita in Blenheim 

wanted to support a project Gloria is involved with.

We identified it as Masces School in Vanuatu.

In the photo are some of the group members, 

Gloria gave a presentation on Friday and,

 has receiving some funds to help the school.

The Renwick church in Blenheim, collected 

some early readers books

and these will be making there way to Blenheim in 3 weeks time. 

 Thank you church family for your help in this project some more photos to follow. 

These are the Principals of the PCV Schools from through-out the

Vanuatu group of Islands

They have just completed the Gender training course which 

was funded by Uniting World from Australia

Bronwyn from Uniting World is in the Photo.

We had a traditional lunch at Siviri Village where the training was conducted,

The food was a Laplap with a breadfruit platter

along with white rice and chicken wings and vegetables. 

This is the breadfruit platter covered in creamy coconut milk.

 In the distance is the Island of Nguna 

which has a dormant volcano on the high peak

I have been watching this Siviri church hall being built

over the last 3 years and they are just about too

to put the roof on and are now fund raising 

to buy the NZ pine for the trusses

They have got all the iron sheets 

which are laying in the fore ground 

The hall is 32 meters long and 12 meters wide

thats a lot of cement and sand. 

it is just as well they live buy the sea!!

My driving licence is due to expire on 25 May 2018

In Vanuatu you are required to get a medical at a cost of 1000vt 

and then the licence is 5000vt

A total of NZD $80 whoooo every 3 years !!!!

I will need the licence for driving jobs, as they do arise from 

time to time.

I have an early job at 6.45am tomorrow with this van

One of the neighbour's son "Russel" has broken his arm

for the second time in 3 months.

he is not a happy chappy

We have completed the final part of the hooking up of 

two smart power metres at Jensen house

We will now need to turn our attention to Sutherland house

as the power line was put back temporary on the wall after

Cyclone PAM but it needs to be raised higher

The power line is resting in the trees

in this photo

These ladies are cooking corn over a open fire 

If you're caught driving your vehicle without it being registered.

the police may compound it.

This year the police compound wasn't big enough

so they used the convention centre grounds