How I think Peace Corps Service will influence my personal and professional aspirations after my service ends. Wow I wrote this in May 2009 - over two years ago - and in 2 months my Peace Corps service is ending. My good friend Kanani came out to Ulithi for a visit at the end of July. Her visit happened to coincide with a tropical storm, so we nestled in, watched movies and did puzzles galore! We arrived in Pohnpei in the middle of the night and were whisked away in a van to our.

The basketball court was the only thing anyone would talk about on Kuttu. Where is it going? When do we start? How many bags of cement was that again? It seemed like the perfect project; if I gave it a push it would roll to the end on its own. As much as I gave my friends a hard time for being lazy the land got cleared pretty quickly. In only a month we were able to empty out a plot of land big enough to build a high school basketball court.

Wednesday, December 16, 2009. Sakau is a drink that traditionally was only made for special ceremonies or feasts and drank by men who had high titles. Nowadays, you can find sakau being made all over the island for anyone to drink. I have posted a link to the wikipedia page about how it is prepared but I will also do my best to explain it. Tuesday, December 1, 2009.