Pics of Waya Island school visit - Fiji

Eat your hearts out - Maggie Drum on the left and White Swan on the right in Yalobi Bay - Waya Island in the Yasawas in Fiji
Dianna from White Swan with some of the kids.


This is the little daughter of the school teacher for Class 8 that we visited. Di gave her the ukelele they had on the WS and never used. Boy oh boy was she ever a happy girl!




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That's me, Bob from WS and the lovely Cindy.

Below - Cindy and Di at the admin office porch at the school.

Some of the school buildings. Kids come from all the neighboring islands by small open boats. Some stay for a week at a time and some go home each night. The parents from each village take turns cooking and cleaning at the school for a week at a time. How would that work in the US?

a traditional bure (hut) in the village of Yalobi.

This is the "shell market". The women come out from their homes and offer shells, tapas (home-made bark cloth), bead work, carvings, etc. at very reasonable prices. There was no one there when we arrived to do our sevusevu ceremony with the village elder (the chief had died the week before and the new one was not selected yet).

A view of the village from the boat.

Trying to leave the school - we all had wet eyes!

Di cutting up with some of the kids in the classroom.

We had to address the class and tell them to do well in school. They sang for us afterword. Words can't describe the beauty of the singing and the heart-wrenching emotions. The kids were polite but very enthusiastic.

Some of Class 8 plus others!