The Most Relaxing Weekend in Known History

This past weekend was supremely relaxing. Friday night was the first weekend night since I've been here that I didn't go anywhere and just stayed home, but it was just what I needed. The rest of the weekend was more fun since we had plans to help Sandra (lady in charge of PICED/ Taylor's aunt) deliver some goods that were donated for tsunami relief. Sandra wanted to make sure that things were delivered fairly and that the goods got to the right people, so her plan was to take a pre-sorted load to one village at a time.

When we got to Sandra's house at 10 packed up the stuff and packed ourselves in and headed to the village of Masefau on the north-east side of the island to deliver the goods. After we spread out the food and goods and the chief and mayor lead the handing out we were invited to the mayors house for tea. Now, when you hear that someone is going to 'tea' you most likely imagine some cookies, or maybe little sandwiches and tea - of course. However the tea we had was Mountain Dew and Coke to drink, and a huge plate of coconut rice and pisupo (corned beef - right out of the can). This is some good eating here in Samoa, but for us bunch of palagis the idea of eating approximately half a pound of cold, fatty corned beef not to mention a hefty portion of rice in the late morning is a daunting task - especially as it is a very kind gesture from the mayor and you know you have to eat at least a third of it. Luckily for me I received the smallest portion. While we were plugging away at our plates we did get to hear some very interesting talk from the mayor about the way relief funds are working and how his village is doing, which help us deal with our plates. Oh and some really cute puppies didn't hurt either.

On the way home Sandra took a little detour to show us the cool little village of Sa'ilele which has some truly lovely sandy beaches that we immediately vowed to return to. As we headed back west we decided to head to Scott and Taylor's for some dinner and just some chilled hanging out. A very nice, relaxing weekend.

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