PAO MISSION ADVENTURES

25 November To 16 December 2018  . . . .   Summer TIME and the livin' is easyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Tunas jumpin' and the rubbish is high . . . .in Tarawa. . .. Technically, I don't believe it is actually summer . . .just a lingering Spring. The Kiwi's say the real summer in NZ is February and March - like our July and August. Maybe a bit muggy but not too bad. Cool, windy and rainy here until Saturday which was all the way up to 20 C.  . . . 68 F. Now Tarawa, Kiribati  (kear-a-bis with a rolled 'r')  is another story. 90 F and 90% humid every stinkin' day . . .365 days a year. One season. . .   no other one coming Even when it rains - and it does rains with a vengeance - and the humidity goes to 100% and stays at 90 F.  What an experience –  White beaches both sides of the 32 km road through the island . . .  well once we got through the 'rubbish' and stripped out car bodies to the beach. Beautiful turquoise lagoon water insid

25 September 2018 G'day frooom dawn-undah, We bin ear a wake. The witha ‘as bin very rainy must deyez. . . nairly drown wawkin' ta wuwk. No utes ear. . . jist an ole Nissen we’re driven. It is a motaw pool caw for the Pacific Area Office. We’ve drivin' on the lift through lots of strange intersickshuns. . .. red leyets that we stop foo and get honked at for doin' it. Made it taw Chuwch 'n back with veary lil damage. . . .and gawt it back into are caw pawk. No Jandals or gum boots yit.  It was Fawthaws Deye ear on Sunday and we git ollies for the olideye . Whew, it’s wearin' me out trying to translate what we hear people saying into phonetic spelling. There are two men at the Area Office who talk at the speed of a light and slur all their sounds together. They may as well be speaking Mandarin Chinese and I could understand just as well.  We really can't understand anything they say . . . and they are both ventriloquists. THEIR LI