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Aho Fakatonga (“Like a Tonga Day)
While much of our training to become Peace Corps volunteers has focused on the language, a good part of our education has also focused on culture. W…
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My New Job
I will be spending the next two years in Vava’u working with both the Tonga Development Bank and the Vava’u Chamber of Commerce. I am very happy with…
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Tonga Prices
It’s not uncommon to discover that residents in many resort destinations get a better price than what the tourists pay. When I lived in Hawaii, Kama…
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Here comes the rain (again)!
Remember the movie Forrest Gump? There is a scene where Forrest is in Vietnam and he says “One day it started raining, and it rained and it kept rai…
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How I did something REALLY inappropriate!
During Breakfast Saturday, my host sister told me that we were planning to go to another village called Taoa which she described as a long way. We ma…
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Vava’u—We made it!
The lush green landscape, rolling hills of tropical foliage and pouring rain all signs that we were no longer on Tongatapu. After a shorter than exp…
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Family, Food and School
The concept of family in Tonga takes some explaining. Yes, the families are very large but the relationship between family members is quite differen…
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