Snapshots from Samoa

This is the place where you'll find snapshots of my life as a peace corps in Samoa.

Tuesday, September 19, 2006

New Location… Same Me

For the few of you who remember the surprise going away party at Red Lobster the following story will not come as a surprise.

Upon moving into my new flat, and residence for at least the next year probably 2, I was told about the cash power system. Instead of getting billed monthly for power you’ve used you pay the power company in advance, get a receipt and punch a code into your home power box. When you’ve used all the power you’ve paid for the power cuts off (can you see where this is going?). The little meter said 300 something when I moved in… did I know what that meant? No. But there were LED’s in green, yellow and red so I figured I’d go buy power when the little light turned yellow… or red. Oh the best laid plans.

One delightful Tuesday some of my favorite people came into town… Texas and Peta. We were going to have a “potu ono” (more on this later) reunion at my place. We bought honey chicken from Chopsticks and mix for hot, chewy chocolate chip cookies. It was shaping up to be a great evening. We took a cab to the flat and walk into a flat with no electricity. Needless to say there were no cookies that night. But there is a happy ending…thanks to Aunti Mabel I was quite prepared… I got out the candles and the lighter and potu ono had a candlelight dinner. I of course got some more power the next day ^_^.

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