Final Blog Post

'Vinaka' the air steward said as I exited the Air Pacific plane. Probably the last Fijian I would hear for a while . Jia Kai and I had arrived at Hong Kong International Airport. I definitely felt a mild form of culture shock...... and agreed with Hoopers argument that Asia and the Pacific are really different and incomparable. After painstakingly learning to walk like a Fijian, we were back in a big city and being overtaken by everyone! We joked before hopping onto our prompt airport shuttle train - Goodbye Fiji Time. 


Continuing in the spirit of the course and in order to commemorate leaving Fiji, I wrote one last corny but genuine acrostic poem on the way to Nadi;


Good experiences 
Of your people and culture
Of your heat and water
Development? (an in-course joke) 
Bye bye Fiji, 
You'll be missed,
Everyday was intense. 


Found some of myself
In these islands.
Just want to see more,
I am grateful. 


Well, I guess that's it - the final blog post. Now I just have to process the experience and continue to build on all the aspects of Fiji and Oceania I've learned and seen in the last 3 and a half weeks, some of which are detailed on this blog. Thank you so much for the experience and to anyone else who followed the adventure here.