For Caitlin, with Love and Squalor

Rat-tail hunting.

Suni and Share

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These are 3 of the 6 Suni boys (Suni is the name of their house). These guys are all from Fiji. Juicy tidbits to share from L to R: Simone is dating one of the girls in our group. Sio is 27 and has a kid, and is the responsible, fatherly, cook-for-you kinda guy. And Praneet is just adorable. He taught me how to bake a cake using only a hot plate.

And this is what we do when we're bored.

Crabbers

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Please note that this is me getting really dressed up to hit the clubs! And they find yellow rubber flip flops perfectly acceptable! Anyway, Crabbers is the place in town where everyone tells us not to go. And we go anyways, and we dance, and we sweat, and we have a great time (usually).

But last Saturday, a fight broke out at Crabbers and a guy was taken to the hospital where he died.

I guess I won't be going back to Crabbers anytime soon...

No flip flops allowed

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In Fiji, our group wanted to go out with the SIT group from Fiji, but we were told that we'd be rejected from the clubs in flip flops (which are, unfortunately, all I have with me). But there's nothing a torn lavalava won't fix!

Queen of the Macarena

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If pictures are worth 1000 words...