Tribewanted: Vorovoro

Dear Tribe,

I am so sorry reports have been slow to trickle in, but posting blogs isn’t always top of the list on a frantic day in Labasa, and I’ve taken to coming in once a week on Saturday. But the biggest update this week is that we have finished the bamboo walls for the new vale!!

I have stories to tell about the two visits I made, first to Matai Labasa, and then to Vuo, in search of bamboo with the clock ticking. It’s best to cut bamboo only during certain times of the month, given the growth cycle of the fibers. If you cut at the wrong time, the bamboo will shed (as it has in the chief bure). But lots of boat trips, madcap taxi rides (thanks, Mela, Jo, Marau, and Save), mud, grog and mumbled mixes of Fijian and English, we got our bamboo and started hammering away.

We were not as fast as the boys from Vuo would have been, but the tribe all pitched in, and we learned a things or two about how to make something beautiful, breathable, and cool from fast-growing resources around us. We have been having grog sessions in the vale, and we’ll put the finishing walls braces on this week. My hope is that we can crack on and build some accomodation for Team Fiji, using the remaining bamboo as Marau suggested. I’ll keep you posted. And I hope we can get more news out this week.

Vinaka!!
Adi Vua (kazoo)