JESSICA HARDIMAN'S BLOG
October Chief blog - week 4
Tags: Tribe / Chiefs / Fiji
Bula sia Tribe
So what has been happening on sunny, rainy, sunny Vorovoro?
Monday we were excited to welcome 6 new tribe members onto the island, bringing much laughter, camp fires and a fancy dress party with a sustainable theme – costumes had to be made from natural materials found on the island. There were banana leaf butterflies, woven leaf crowns and coconut bras. An island party wouldn’t be an island party without these coconut accompaniments.
Tuesdays Sevusevu passed without a hitch and the village was looking beautiful after all the hard work the tribe put in …
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Tags: Tribe / Chiefs / Fijian / FijiBula sia Tribe,
The weather here is on the turn. The sea is warming up, the sun is brighter and the rains are often lingering on the horizon. The sea changes colour from aquamarine to blue, blue to green, green to groggy brown and back to aquamarine all in …
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Tags: Tribe / Build / Chiefs / FijiBula sia Tribe,
The salu salu has been passed on, I am now your new chief blogging from the island and keeping you all informed of life here in paradise.
It’s been a quiet start to year 4, but we’ve been busy on and off the island.
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Tags: FijiEveryday I wake up and feel a greater connection and love for this island and everyone and everything on it.
Sitting with Pupu making jewellery together as he talked to me about the shell he was using, how his wife had found it and how it had been in …
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Why would you like to be chief?
I knew from day one of my island adventure, sitting in the bobbing boat watching Captain Jone relaxing under a red tartan umbrella, that the time I had booked wouldn‘t be long enough and this was before I had even set foot …
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