Back in Sola Mar 25, 2008

Hello Again,
We've made it back to Santo after almost a week where we were sort of stranded on our island. Last Wednesday we were scheduled to fly from our island toPort Vila for a meeting with Peace Corps and a little break. We left our house around 5am, hiked for about an hour before the sun came up enough to put away our flashlights, and were in really good spirits. The weather stayed dry until we were about an hour away from Sola. The rain came and didn't stop until we made it into Sola. We found out as we made it into town that the flight had been cancelled because of the rain. We were worried that that might happen, but had been holding out hope. So when we tried to find out if we could get on Friday's flight to go to Vila, we were told that there was no longer a reason for us to come because we would miss the meeting anyways. Thankfully we were allowed to come into Santo for a resupply trip. Well, it ended up that Friday's flight was overbooked,so we had to wait for Monday's flight and hope that itdidn't rain on Monday. As word spread around Sola that we hadn't gotten on the Friday flight, everyone started trying to help us get on Monday's flight. The woman who runs the bungalow we stayed at called her son in law, in Vila who works at the Air Vanuatu flight scheduling to ask him to check and make sure we were on the flight. It's one of the plusses of being in such a small country where pretty much everyone knows everyone else. So we made it on the flight and arrived in Santo on Monday afternoon.The last two months have been pretty eventful. School started in the middle of February. The students spent the first week back cleaning up the school grounds and classrooms. Some of them helped Sandra and I organize the piles of books into a small library. Sandra was nominated as the librarian for the school by the other teachers.