The last few days

It is time to go, our 12 months are up and we leave on Saturday 11 February.
It has been a time of tidying up, getting reports written and arranging handover notes for the next volunteers.
We sold the 'truk' on the wettest day so far. The day before, I drove through a puddle and the central locking went into overdrive clicking on and off randomly. A change of a fuse and drying out in the car port cleared the problem.

The weather is cyclonic with very heavy rain followed by clear sunny days. There are three lows in the region at the moment. Today was a beautiful sunny day but suddenly at 7pm the wind arrived and we will be in for a noisy night. just seen the tracking map
http://www.meteo.gov.vu/TropicalCyclones/TCTrackMap/tabid/173/Default.aspx
which predicts it to arrive at Vila on Wednesday, the day we fly! Ho Hum!



















There has been a farewell evening with Vanuatu Family health and a lunch with Wan Smolbag youth centre with lots of emotional speeches about why are you leaving us so soon and showing their appreciation of the help that Annie has given. The banana (plantain) laplap was cooked at home and brought in wrapped in its banana leaves parcel with a few hot stones inside. It was unwrapped to show the spinach/cabbage and chicken inside and Jeven squeezed the coconut milk on. It was delicious.

 We had a lovely 'bring and share' farewell supper with our friends. There was a huge plate of sushi from the Natangora cafe (run by a Japanese chef), a massive home made pizza, vegetable curry and a mountain of profiteroles supplied by Francois of Le Jardin de Saveur. A good time was had by all and we were given a splendid send off.