Today we finished our Exams which consisted of 5 essays each a page and a half. Each essay was based on the 5 lectures that we attended on the 9th and the 8th. After Exams a group of us went sight seeing in the town of Suva which is far more developed than Nadi. The town is set up right by the sea so we were able to walk along the sea wall while we were downtown. Many of the stores are set up like our malls except much more packed. I think they even might hype up Valentines Day more than we do! We also went to the museum and Suva where we saw the boats that the Lapita people made to sail the Pacific as well as certain artifacts like the forks that the cannibals used ( they have 4 spokes and a thick handle).There was a story about a man who was a missionary that insulted a tribe of Fijian people and as a result he was found and eaten. A Fijian man at the museum told me that a few years ago the people of that tribe located his distant relatives and apologized to the family..apparently all is well now.
Later we went to a movie for 4 dollars (Fiji money so 2 dollars US). We went to Just Go With It and I don't think I have ever heard so much laughing in a theater in my life. Fijians definitely have a huge sense of humor which I love! We caught a cab home where we stayed up for hours exchanging ghost stories. Unlike my stories Auntie's stories were much more scary. She talked about the black magic in the villages in Fiji and her experiences. Her husband was a chief and took a youth group to a village and ended up having to sleep on the outside of the village where there was said to be bad spirits that were easily angered. A week later her husband came back with pain in his shoulders and the weeks following he began to get sick and delirious. One night he had a dream that we was watching his own funeral and 2 weeks later he had passed away. Auntie told us she believed that it was the bad magic/spirits that brought him to his death. They also have seen people practicing dark magic and that if you call out their name they can die on the spot. She told us that she saw a lady practicing once (naked) and the lady looked up at her and she ran away. The people of that village told her that after that day the lady formed sores all over the front of her body where Auntie had seen her. Auntie says she never goes back to that village because she is too afraid to see her.
(My camera broke so these are pictures my friend took and I will be using her pictures for now)
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