Lomanikaya Life

We are officially Peace Corp Volunteers and we even made it on the six o'clock news. We are now living in our small house on the island of Vatulele in the smallest village called Lomanikaya. There are only 90 people in the village and about 1000 on the whole island. It is absolutlely beautiful and the people are so kind. They bring us food almost everyday ranging from banana scone to fresh octopus. Our house is surrounded by breadfruit and mango trees and we started a little garden with around 160 cabbage and 50 tomato seedlings from the mayor's garden. It's been two weeks and we already facing the issues concerning the villages. There is no running water and we have to fetch all of our water from the well. We get our drinking water from rain water collection. Melissa has been working in the health center with the only nurse on the island in the neighboring village. Drew has been scoping the out the island checking out the eco-tourism project and looking at the water situation. We are very happy here and living healthy with the large amounts of food we get from the villagers.