Iaorana! Eaha to outou huru? This Monday we officially moved into Tahitian, which is super exciting and also has caused a mass headache epidemic. Je blague ;) I remember our first week here, we were especially tired and 'slap happy' by Saturday, our third full day. Our third day of Tahitian went pretty much the same. Lessons in Tahitian have more or less resulted in "Um... book.... true.... Book of Mormon? Prophet true Joseph Smith... Read book.... pray....good?" And then we'd attempt to ask them a question and they'd go off in rapid Tahitian, probably saying something really...

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Iaorana! So. Last week, we finish emailing an hour or so before dinner, I practice piano for a bit, and we head to dinner to end our p-day. (P-day only lasts until dinner, and we go back to class after.) We walk into the cafeteria and swipe our cards, like any other 8:10am, 12:35pm or 5:40pm. We get a few feet past the door however, and all of a sudden we are mobbed by our elders, who are yelling and waving these strange papers in our face that say "Travel Itinerary." Wait, what? As some of you may...

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Week 4 down and we've been here almost a month! Weird. Let's see, after emailing last week p-day was almost over because we spent so long emailing! That evening though we started another jeûne d'anglais (English fast) and his time Frère T challenged us not to say a single word in English, even to ask how to say something. It was fun though, because we had motivation: he brought us something from his trip to Tahiti, but we had to earn it. In the end we were more or less successful and he gave us some super chouette...

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Salut! I find it entertaining that the word for 'hi' in french is the same as the word for 'salvation.' We practiced teaching the plan of hi a few times this week. We haven't started greeting people by saying 'salvation,' but hey, you never know what we'll come up with next to keep ourselves entertained. We have to keep ourselves entertained here, or 10 hours of class and the same four walls would make us crazy!  For more language fun, get this: 'bénir' means to bless, whereas 'blesser' means to injure. Our teachers made sure we understood that...

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