Whats going on in my life today?? Well some might say not much, as it seems i have dropped off the face of the earth. That's because I am chillaxing in Savaii, my new home, and so you may not see me around (like everyone ever saw me when I was in Apia anyways har har..). But, Things are still going on, the brain is still ticking, and somebody is home..I haven't vanquished myself..and I'm still thinking of blogworthy things to write about all the time! yes, even in Savaii, there are great things to be shared with the world!!
A few days ago, I finally got a girl. At the mo, and for the next few months shes mainly just here to help me..but eventually shell be a stay at home babysitter when i finally (if ever) decide to haul my butt back to work! It has taken yonks to finally give in/find/scrutinize and finally allow someone to do the job she is doing.you know how there is that little voice in your head that they say you should listen to?? (or is it your heart?? well which ever..) Mines says NO NO NO...to having someone intrude into the little life of my precious, but the voices around me (yes I'm becoming schizophrenic) all say "so when are you going back to work?" " you really just need to do it " (go back to work) " we hear there aren't enough people at work" " SAvaii really needs you"...its like, aweee shucks..fine. (:) )Oh and "you must really miss it" (for that one, its like, yeaaaahh, nah not really, when youve worked in an environment that is constantly crazy/ hectic /busy and involves death and dying and angry patients and even angrier co-workers, getting to stay home bake a cake and then eat it too is just LUXUUURY !!LOL)
BUt, as always , in this profession, somehow there are certain issues that are just always 'morally wrong' (or so society says) .Its straight forward to me, in the end, its still a job, you pay for a service, and you cant expect me to work my head, heart, body and soul ...to the ground...I mean yes, its a good cause, but you know, the cause will always be there, and sometimes, you have to prioritise whats important in your life. The one that always gets me is "there was this emergency , and who and who was really ill, and they rushed to the hosp and there was no doctor"...now those stories always scare me, that's just wrong,I always think, now what if that were my mum, or my sister, or my grandma?? It should never happen, and if its because I ha vent hauled my ass back to work, well , I'm coming. Soon. In a few months.
Anyways, to get back to the point, having this girl, (the carer) in my house, has just been heartbreaking. I mean she is really good, no one says she isnt. Its just, she keeps wanting to si'i my daughter, and I'm like No...I'm here, i can sii her, you just go wipe a table or something (i know, how selfish, but I'm just feeling too attached right now to let anyone else in...and its just not fair...why cant i just stay at home forever, and enjoy the pleasures of my daughter growing up without growing slowly insane....) he he!
OK, so what else is going on, well, our neighbours have this boat. Its a fairly biggish boat that they go deep sea fishing for tuna etc here in the big island. Not too many people have them. But for freaks sake it is certainly on its last legs, and it dies, about 100yards out from their make shift doc (behind their house) which always puts it about 30yards from my house, every single time they come home. And for an hour theres banging and hammering, and yelps and more banging. They keep telling us later the motor died, and gawd only knows what the heck they are doing with all that banging to fix it.Must be the old Samoan remedy of 'just keep hitting it ' til it comes back on.:) (se'i malepe le mea then we'll ask those guys in NZ/Aust/Pago to buy a new one!) Anyways, its always far too early in the morning and it wakes the baby, and I'm about ready to throw a hammer at someones head on the boat one morning (and go Oops, thought you might need one! sorry)
so yesterday the boat dies a little further out, beyond the reef, and its just kinda drifting and i guess the banging doesn't work. So what do they do, here's one to laugh at. They approach my husband about a boat they can just make out thru a hole in their fence and ours that they've been spying on i guess, with a tiny little motor, like smaller then a lawnmower, like maybe a weed eater size..its a little dingy, like it has oars that your meant to paddle around in, like just bigger then a kayak. And they want us to go out and haul them back in. Now their boat is like huuuuuge and our dingy is like tiny and i just couldn't see how they could figure our little thingy could haul them in with out killing the motor and breaking the boat in half, but that is soo typical of our people. They don't really have that thought in mind, alot of them really do have a use and abuse mentality, esp if they've had all their material possessions sent from overseas relatives and have never had to break a sweat over getting things for themselves.They dont really know the value of things coz, theyll just get someone else to go out and 'buy them another one' when it breaks...as an excuse.
These same neighbours keep asking us for tools too. not just a hammer and saw, they want our power tools our industrial drills and saws and chainsaws and lawnmowers...because, well, they got some but theyre broke/lost/dead/filed down/blunt from abuse....and so they would like to now demolish our tools thanks. Luckily, the boats motor was dead so we couldn't help them out there, and sorry all our tools are being used right now coz we're building a house (they are also building a house, but they can see we are building a house..what they want us to share??we build in morning they build in evening??)
A couple of nights ago, this same family, approached us, and asked us for 3 grand , to borrow of course, cos like, that's the kinda money we just have growing on the mango tree outside. anyways, the funny part is when asked what its for, they said their close rely in NZ got a call from a man from Nokia cell phone company who told her she had won $600,000.00 dollars and she had to send them 3 grand as a process fee in order for her to get her prize.(like if it were for real they couldnt just cut the 3 grand from the 6 hundred THOUSAND dollars theyve supposedly won??) Of course, she didn't even enter any draw or anything- does this not sound like a S-C-A-M to you?? well, we politely said sorry, we didn't have the money, then tried to explain that this sounded dodgy and it was likely a scam. however, i think they're still not over the excitement and persistently insisted it was for real cos the nokia man called them in person..yea, the nokia guy from Zimbabwe whos sitting at a computer calling a million people trying to see who'll be idiotic enough to send him money. Anyways, they walked away with a "just wait til we're rich, then you'll be sorry" attitude and we both hope they don't find someone to lend them the money, cos its only gonna bite them in the butt.
So you see, interesting things do happen here, ...Ill keep you posted!
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