Learning the Life in Gizo

John is quickly catching onto life in Gizo, and visited a Kindy or
Kindergarten for the Americans. He had some fun trying to speak
pidgin but the kids are rather shy. The age of the kids in the Kindy
is from 3 to 9 and most have trouble reading or writing. School here
just became mandatory this year so lots of kids are behind on their
education, and school is still not free. The government now covers
tuition but the other cost of uniforms, books, and maintenance cost
for the schools is still not covered. The government only pays the
teachers, not the power bills, land fees, or building costs. Where
most people here still do not use cash a lot, but a barter system it
makes it difficult to come up with the money for schools.

This weekend John and I are headed to Munda, a town about an hour and
a half away by outboard motor. We will meet up with some of my
friends that run the dive shop there and do a dive that should be
incredible. You walk into an island then follow jump into a sink hole
and follow a cave/tunnel that empties out onto the reef wall in the
ocean. It should be pretty incredible, and hopefully we will have a
cool video to put up afterward. We will come back on Monday, then
follow one of our staff back to his village and spend a night and day
there fishing, canoeing and teaching John some custom weavings.

Luke