My famliy has arrived

Its Canada day and my sole goal is to keep them up till at least 8 pm. My friend Robin had a party Canada day party, and they had their first drink of Kava, well Michelle and Erick's second, third, forth...

family has arrived in Fiji

Stan showing us how to climb trees the South pacific way

hanging out

the fashion show and more pottery

Here are some pictures of the fashion show, this was our year end project for my sewing class and some more pictures of the pottery.

fashion show and pottery

day of pottery for art class

pottery firing

pictures

various events that have occurred over the last few months

random pictures

Sosefo arriving in Fiji

sosefo arrives

Time flies!!!

How does it happen, after the last major blog session I promised myself I would never wait that long again to download pictures and guess what... here I am again. But at least I can say that for a month I was busy with my family. Amazingly it has been almost a month since their visit!!! I am back at school taking two art classes and not sure yet if I am enjoying myself. More about me later I am now going to upload photos and it seems to be going relatively fast so here we go.... In no particular order...

Sigatoka sand dunes

The ocean is amazing at the sand dunes. The sand dunes are famous for finding shards of lapita pottery.

sigatoka sand dunes

Various events

Here are some pictures of various events. Music at the Oceanic centre. A cow in our neighborhood, at a Hindu family's house that was morning a death. The baby cow would be given to the priest at the end of the rituals. That cow just added to the 3am yodeling that goes on by the dogs. Some shots of Tonga when I went back in May. Pictures that seem to be of empty lots are empty because of the riots and the buildings were burnt down.

various events

Fund raiser

This was a fund raiser for the Solomon Island Tsunami appeal. Some of these pictures are actually video and I have to figure out how to download them. Enjoy till I get them done as video.

Soloman's fund raising

Ed 181 art fundamentals

Some of the things I have been doing in art class

ed 181 art fundamentals class

An Ode to Mold

Mold and mildew are my friends
I bleach it, frebreeze it, and they will still be here till the end
Black spots do abound, especially if you leave your sweaty cloth on the ground
I surrender to the mold and chose to accept it
So if you see black spots on my white t shirt its because I have embraced it!

the mold series

Ah more photos!!

Well this has only taken me an hour to download these last two entries, god bless fiji!!!

some pictures of life in fiji

Almost Finished

I am almost finished school, I have one exam next Friday so I thought I will persevere and load some pictures, even if it take me all day! So here we go....

making an art box

the reason why I can't blog

I have been trying for days to download some photos of my life and adventures but
I keep getting timed out! So here is a link to a story that may explain why I can't get my postings up!

http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=62944

Anyway life is good, school is great I love being a mature student and giving teachers heck when they don't follow through or basically screw-up. I have pottery on Wednesday and Fridays which I am totally loving, but finding the clay difficult to work with. My family is coming to visit for a month in July, which I am totally excited about. I am super busy with adventures with Stan and Josie, pictures to follow soon I hope! Well I am off to write up my labs and a balcony party tonight.

Jay

Craft day

Josie and the girls came over to do plasticine art with Tua ofa

craft day

A day of pottery

We met a lovely woman at the fiji museum and her and her mom make pottery. We asked if they would teach us how they make pottery in fiji, and they we happy to teach us at their village. The village is about 1/2 hour by car from Suva, before the airport. They collect the clay from the river bank of the Rewa River, and make all sorts of traditional pots and little pigs, ducks and bura's to sell at the museum. I made a little pig and Josie made a little pot. We had a great day and feel very inspired to do our own pottery here at the house.

day of pottery

day of pottery

The latest version of the dolls

She has changed again...

newer version

I love random photos

here are some photos that show life here in fiji

I love random photos

Being creative

I don't remember how this creative endeavor started but this is just a sampling of what we are doing:

creating

I remember now, we went to an outdoor craft market and decided that it would be fun to do a table, and since it is only one Sunday a month it is not a huge commitment. We have now decided we won't do the craft market, too unpredictable with the weather, so we are currently looking for other venues.