Fiji stories, Labasa, South Pacific culture, family, migration, Australia/Fiji relationship
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Houses and bures in Fiji
Here's an assortment of different styles of bures, one building in progress - probably for a tourist hut, one for a chief, bure at University of the South Pacific, a farm house near Labasa, one bure kalou - a copy of a spirit house, a colonial bungalow in Levuka, and so on.
I haven't been this homesick in a long time, but reading through your posts are sure making me feel this way!
Lots of memories here.
I was supposed to be going back in late August but unfortunately the trip has to be called off for business reasons. I was so looking forward to showing J my homeland, where I was born, where I lived, and introducing her to some of the best diving in the world.
It's going to have to be another time.
Thanks for the memories - I'll have to be a regular visitor to get my taste of the tropics now and then!
Hullo NZM. Sorry to make you homesick but I guess this babasiga blog is about memories of places as well as current stories. How different life must be in Dubai! Wendy
Babasiga (pronounced bambasinga) is the dry land of Macuata in northern Fiji - our place in the sun in Fiji. Peceli is from Fiji from the village is Vatuadova and the beach is Nukutatava. Peceli Ratawa passed away on 27th December 2015 so this is Wendy's blog now. Wendy is an Australian and today live in Geelong, Australia.
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I haven't been this homesick in a long time, but reading through your posts are sure making me feel this way!
Lots of memories here.
I was supposed to be going back in late August but unfortunately the trip has to be called off for business reasons. I was so looking forward to showing J my homeland, where I was born, where I lived, and introducing her to some of the best diving in the world.
It's going to have to be another time.
Thanks for the memories - I'll have to be a regular visitor to get my taste of the tropics now and then!
Hullo NZM. Sorry to make you homesick but I guess this babasiga blog is about memories of places as well as current stories. How different life must be in Dubai!
Wendy
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