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Documentary: ni-Vanuatu visiting U.S.

Anton Zuiker — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 01:22:13 +0000

See this Craigslist posting about a documentary to feature ni-Vanuatu learning from American hosts:

KEO FILMS, a UK-based company is producing a documentary for a reputable US cable network in which a small group of tribesmen from the island of Vanuatu (South Pacific) will visit with several different families throughout the US this fall.

Babies for group 11

Anton Zuiker — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 03:40:44 +0000

Congrats to Tom Spangler and Karyn Fox on the birth of their first child, a son; Chad and Kristen Metzler on the birth of their daughter (they have a son, too); and Bridgit Green and Ibrahim Adamou on the birth of their first child, a daughter.

About those goals

Anton Zuiker — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 22:05:44 +0000

From where did the three Peace Corps goals come? Read this.

Peace Corps Vanuatu website

Anton Zuiker — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:08:49 +0000

Just stumbled upon this today, but Peace Corps Vanuatu has a website.

State of emergency in Port Vila

Anton Zuiker — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:13:05 +0000

Sara Lightner forwarded a message from Ralph Regenvanu about violence flaring up in and around Vila. Looks as if man Tanna and man Ambrym are in a rao about sorcery. See Reuters coverage in this article.

North Carolina storian dinner

Anton Zuiker — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 16:14:31 +0000

After more than two years, Erin and I finally found a time to gather with some of the North Carolina Vanuatu RPCVs. Evan and Maggie Baker (Evan was based in Vila, and Maggie was a VSO in Vila) and Bryan and Beth Roy (Bryan lived on Paama) joined me and Erin (we were on Paama) for dinner last night. Bryan and Beth recently returned from a round-the-world trip and visit to Vila and Paama, and they had news and pictures to share: the Liro nakamal was gone, and in its place a grassy yard and a kava bar named The Six Horseshoes; little Ben Laycock is now a towering lad; there’s a new Au Bon Marche for groceries in Vila; marijuana is the trendy crop; and Tusker beer is as good as ever.

Jocelyn and Dona Sese weren’t able to join us (Dona is in Vanuatu, we hear) and Chad and Kristin Metzler, who live in Davidson, NC, were too far for this dinner, so we’ll be planning a summer lafet with laplap, pig, kava, powder, island dresses and more. If you’d like to join us, please do.

Vanuatu video tourism

Anton Zuiker — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 02:33:30 +0000

Doug Clegg (Ambrym 1997-2000) alerts us to Vanuatu.tv. He also writes that there’s not much snow but the ski resorts in Idaho are open, and “looks like if we don’t get some precip this month we could be looking at another year of drought.”

Listen to the Peace Corps podcast

Anton Zuiker — Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:37:42 +0000

The Peace Corps has a podcast published every Thursday. Subscribe and listen to voices of our fellow volunteers. We can do a Vanuatu RPCV podcast — who wants to be first?

The moon and mango seas

Anton Zuiker — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 01:47:19 +0000

On my way home from work tonight, I watched as a gigantic full moon gradually got brighter and brighter. I thought back to those nights on Paama when the full moon lit up the island and I could walk around without a torch (as compared to those no-moon nights where I could barely see where I was walking). I always felt so light on those nights, as if I were floating through clouds.

Then there were those late afternoons when, from my hammock, I watched as the last rays of the sun filtered through the leaves of the mango tree in the nakamal area of Liro Village. The air became like liquid, a soft green sea, and it took no imagination at all to be swimming through that transluscent heaven.

Feed the pig

Anton Zuiker — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 03:58:41 +0000

I find my Vanuatu pictures in all kinds of odd places around the house.

Here’s an image I came across tonight, showing me sitting on a pile of navara beside the house Erin and I occupied. The coconuts were for my pig — I traded the kids of Liro Village a mini flashlight for every five navara they added to the pile.