end of week one

This week was crazy busy and so much fun. My roommates and I have been doing so many activities outside that I’m already pretty used to sweating constantly. Its honestly not that different from summer in St. Louis (always humid and 80), except that I get sunburnt way more easily.

Thursday

On Thursday we went to sign up for our classes. I asked to change my whole schedule, haha. I sent in my requests to change my schedule on Thursday, and it is now Sunday and no one has gotten back to me on that. School is not everyone’s top priority here, clearly. Hopefully USP helps me figure it out by tonight or tomorrow, but who really knows. Maybe I’ll just stay here and not go to school!! (haha jk mom)

After attempting to get our schedules changed, we went to the Suva market. This is the city’s downtown area. It kind of reminds me of a small local towns I’ve been to in Mexico and Costa Rica.

I bought some fresh pawpaw (papaya), and we walked around for a while. Since I’ve been here, literally everything we do exhausts me. Im not sure if its the Fiji energy to just be lazy, but I am always exhausted by like 7pm every night. The Suva market really wore me out 🤷

FRIDAY

On Friday, we decided to go back to the waterfalls and hang out with the locals all day. They were so much fun, and really hilarious. They all love the Lakers and think Chicago has a gun problem. Haha. Good to know some accurate info about the US is spreading.

After that, we had our cocktail party. The USP cocktail party was by far the most fun school sponsored function I’ve ever been to. I felt like I was in the movie Lilo and Stitch. It was awesome. Everyone was wearing a sulu, and we watched some traditional Fijian dancers called the Dance Teka.

SATURDAY AND SUNDAY

Early Saturday morning we left for a small beachfront resort called The Beach House Fiji. It’s about an hour and a half from Suva, and only cost us $10 USD to stay there for one night.

The food was so amazing, and very cheap. A large smoothie made with local fruit was $4 USD, compared to the same shit I buy in Chicago for about $12 USD. This made me feel quite bad about myself and my money spending habits 😬.

All in all, literally everything about being in Fiji makes me think the way we live in the US is excessive, and wholly unnecessary. The thought of having to at some point leave is daunting.