Solomon Style

On this part of the world April Fools day is over. Now, seeing as its not even begun at home yet I suppose I could sneak  a little prank in and get away with it, but its now nighttime for me and I'm not feeling particularly clever enough to come up with anything good.  This has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm going to be posting- but as I've just mentioned I'm not feeling very clever at the moment and thus couldn't think of anything else to put as a little introduction for this post.

Yaaa... so, just I'm going to share a couple few photos that tell a bit about this wonderful country they call the Solomon Islands. Here you go:

Solomon Scaffolding

I'm not so sure how well you can see this in the picture, but this is classic Solomon scaffolding... something that would make a health and safety inspector on my side of the world have a hissy fit. It's literally a bunch of timber laid across the beams of the church they are working on. I was a bit nervous watching my friends Chris and Philip, along with number of the young boys who were helping them out a bit, crawl and climb on these loosely nailed in boards  so high off the cement floor of the church, but they didn't seem to mind all that much. 

 Solomon View

When traveling by vehicle, you will more often than not find yourself sitting in a truck bed. It's quite nice though on a hot day to be cooled down in the breeze and not to mention a good view of what's around you. If your stopped in traffic though it you tend to bake a bit.

Solomon Carwash

The river, a perfect place to wash one's vehicle. Seems obvious enough. Thing is though, here this is THE car wash. You drive down to the gate, pay your 10 or whatever dollars to get through and you've got yourself a clean car. No soapy- drive in car washes over here.

Solomon Store

Ya, that’s store here in the Solomons. Pretty self-explanatory. They operate pretty much the same way as shops all over the world. Stores sell stuff, people by stuff, pretty basic. But its kind of a nice picture. 

SO. I will be off for a few days to visit a friend of mine's family (well her sister and her family) out on Malaita island. I'm quite looking forward to checking out this place, I feel as if most of the people I've met are from this island. (Which makes sense I suppose seeing as somewhere like a third of the entire Solomon's population is Malatian) Lucky me, I get to bust out the lava lava and prepare for public showering again!