New Roomate and injury!

(this is an update to a posting i drafted last week, apologies for the delay in posting)
Hello all,
I apologize for the lenght between my postings.  Well its official, my new roomate TauFau has officially moved in.  She is originally from western samoa and was living with Sarah (my former coworker).  Sarah has unfortunatly left Am Sam to go be a DC in Oregon.  Not wanting to be that cruel person who tosses someone out on the street i agreed to let TauFau stay with me in my apartment.  She is very clean which is great and we struck a deal whereby i'll buy the food while she cooks and cleans.  Sounds like a match made in heaven if i ever saw one.

Work has been rough this last week.  Had my first little argument with a producer on wednesday.  I was trying to explain to him (thru Mila of course) why i wouldn't certify his vegetative barrier.  The reasoning was that his existing barriers which were still under the practice lifespan of 5 years were not functioning properly.  There were gaps, weeds and the barrier needed some serious trimming.  Now i've told him this for the last 4 times that i've gone out there and he should know that it needed to be fixed before i come out again.  So this time i thought i would play a more firm role.  Which lets be honest, for me isn't really that serious.  I think i know where it went wrong tho.  I was walking and ended up getting ahead of him and was atop at his new vegetative barrier while he was still below me.  So then not only did it seem i was talking down to him but due to our positions i really was talking down to him.  I have to remember that posture is big here because i remember Mila telling me in the car after we left that he said he wanted to throw me off the mountain.  But she called him Friday to apologize for me and he seems to be ok with it and will hopefully get the corrections done and then i can pay and get rid of this guys contract.

Sarah had her goodbye party at 2 dollar beach on weds.  She made a lot of food which was too bad because not a lot of people showed up.  I think she was somewhat upset about that.  But it was a great time.  2 dollar beach has a little BBQ pit and a gazebo as well as two fales (open air guest houses) along the beach.  We stayed up until 3am drinking and then crashed in the fales for the rest of the night.  Woke up in the morning and went for a swim in the ocean, couldn't have been better.  I miss Sarah but am sort of happy she is gone as i have been going going going since her and Tau moved in last Saturday and relieved to finally have some time to myself.  That and i finally get to steal her office space, two screens woopie!

Also i caved in waiting for the internet to come here and went to ASTCA and purchased an air card.  Granted it is slower that dial-up but at least now i can check my e-mail without having to drive to Carl Jr's.  So at least now i have some semblance of a normal life at home.  Although, i am still going get faster internet, i just have to wait until the end of the month for the 2-way cable to come my way. 

A huge storm rolled through on Friday night, with me being tossed from Michaelas birthday that night, i still woke up to the thunder and lightning, suffice it to say the creek outside my house was roaring the next morning.

The next week was very busy with certification and office work, my boss was out of the office for the whole week so it was just Mila and myself.  We managed to get quite a bit done although it may not have looked like that on paper :( 

Friday night i invited some people over for my official housewarming party.  Taufau and Mila were cooking up a storm and made some awesome dishes for us including poulasami (young taro leaves with coconut milk).  It was an adventure as we husked, scraped and squeezed the coconut milk all ourselves.  Which for some reason made the end result incredbily good.  We were playing Wii and i guess got a little excited so someone decided to quiet us down by throwing a coconut onto my roof.  Never did find out who it was.  I guess there is a lot of passive aggression here.

Saturday, i went with Tau to watch her paddling club's races.  It was fun and enjoyable.  There was a spectacular wipe out by one of the boats and i sorta felt bad for not being able to stop laughing.  They were close to shore and thankfully no one was hurt and after bailing themselves of water in their boat, went on to win their heat....way to go guys!  That night was a night out on the town that i would prefer not recapp as i probably made a fool out of myself in more ways than 1. 

Sunday i went on a hike to the tide pools on the northern side of the mountain with a couple of friends.  Aside from twisting my ankle (which i am paying for now by walking around like a cripple) was absolutely stunning.   It was a fairly easy hike and the view was just incredible, my only regret (other than twtisting my ankle obviously) was forgetting to bring my camera. 

Alright more pain pills. Later.