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Feb 14th, 2020 (Valentine’s Day) – Lakatoro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So today I had my first day at work. It wasn’t too exciting, I just spent the day reading through dozens of policy documents, all of which will feed into the investment policy for Malampa province, which is one of my assignment goals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Me in my office. It was crawling with ants – they were running up my legs, across my keyboard, and just generally causing havoc.
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In the above photo, that’s pretty much my entire office, which is across the entryway from Kevin’s (my counterpart). I’ve never had my own private office before, and quite like it, apart from the ants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The office location is on top of a hill, and all the government buildings are grouped together in a sort of government compound. It’s no surprise that they are in the nicest part of town, and the grounds are well kept with some beautiful trees dotted around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A view of the sea from the government compound.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking towards the police station. The tree on the left is stunning, with red flowers and lime green seed pods hanging down. Anyone know what it is?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Took this photo of the police station, because I thought H would be excited to see a police pickup truck AND a police quad bike.
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Then after work, I picked up a few more things from the market, which is at its busiest on Fridays, as most of the island closes for the weekend. I came home and hung my mozzie net. There was one here, but it didn’t reach to the ground, so I kept having to try to tuck it under the mattress, which wasn’t successful. My new one is great, though. And then I rose to my self-imposed ‘made in Vanuatu’ challenge, and cooked myself dinner using only local ingredients.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A yam, green bean, and capsicum warm salad with fresh chilli and lime.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It was pretty successful, although those yams are pretty flavourless, and taste like great big blobs of dried starch – I think it would have been better if I’d diced them into much smaller cubes so they could pick up more of the lime flavour. Ah well, next time I’ll know. Particularly impressed with how spicy the fresh chilli was – I only used a single one out of my bag of about 50, and it was plenty hot enough. Don’t know how I’ll get through the whole bag before they rot! The green beans were the biggest winner of the day, tasting fresh and sweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not too sure what I’ll be doing for the weekend, although missing my darling wife so much this Valentine’s Day, so tonight I’m going to extend my data allowance and see if I can stream a romantic movie, wishing she were here with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Feb 14th, 2020 (Valentine’s Day) – Lakatoro So today I had my first day at work. It wasn’t too exciting, I just spent the day reading through dozens of policy documents, all of which will feed into the investment policy for Malampa province, which is one of my assignment goals. In the above photo, that’s pretty much my entire office, which is across the entryway from Kevin’s (my counterpart). I’ve never had my own private office before, and quite like…<\/p>\n

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