July 30th

Hey folks,

Sorry It's been a while since the last post. It has been raining and we have been in classes for the past two days so no pictures and nothing really to report on those days.

Today Jess went into town and taught her first lesson to some Samoan students and Bobby and I rode public transport out to the east side of the island to check out our future accommodations.

It looks to be a great year for us! The room and bathrooms and everything look like we are staying at another resort!!! Let the pictures do the talking. We are about 15 minutes out of the small village of Alofau (pronounced "Ah-loh-fow"). It is up on top of a hill so the breeze is very cool so we won't be sweating all of the time. All in all it looks great.

We have some great views from our "resort".

The school that I'll be teaching in has approximately 600 students and I believe it to be the smallest one on our island. We are the Faga'itua Vikings (pronounced "Fahn-gah-ee-two-ah")

We are also the island / state champion football team here too. Our principle's name is Elvis and our Vice Principle's name is Pooch. Pooch is also the head coach of our mighty Viking team. It seems to be a very small, but very cool school.

Bobby will be staying in the village, and until our rooms get furnished, we'll be staying with them for a while. He is staying on a woman named Maria's property. She has two awesome sons named Alex and Rain. Her sons and their friends Mos and Frank went with us up to the site where we were staying and filled us in on some of the local legends.

I'm getting ready to go to our "tea time" session so I'll sign off for the moment. I'll let you know about the living situation as soon as there is anymore movement.

Much love,

~Charlie & Jess