Okay, its been quite awhile since my first post... And I must say, I was running high on wild dreams and not enough reality haha. Okay, so maybe doctor is waay out of context, but the goal is definately to become a nurse. Currently a qualified PCA and struggling to find weekend work. My three year old son can`t attend kinder till next year so, mum is to stay home and hopefully find weekend work to help out dad who is breaking his back at work  so he can provide for his family lol.

So I said I was to introduce myself in the first post, I am from a mixed race family. Mother of melanesian descent and father of polynesian descent. Vanuatu and Tonga to be exact. You may be wanting my parents names next, but I am such a private hermit, maybe in another 10 posts I will bore you with my history. :D

What is it like to be a half caste south pacific islander? Errrm I`d say I have the best of both worlds, well I feel that sometimes haha... Most of the time growing up I struggled to fit in with the ni-van and tongan crowd. I was easy to spot when I`m with my ni-van friends as I was the lighter and bigger than the rest of them... ( I did not handle that very well lol). With my tongan friends, I was darker, didn`t know a word of tongan besides the *kaukau, *kai, *io words, that was basically it. Aaand, too foreign lol and they didn`t hesitate to let me know at times lol. I speak my mother`s common tongue of Bislama fluently as I grew up in Vanuatu, and I have just begun to speak in Tongan, partly because I married a Tongan whose english at the time was limited and there was no way else to communicate unless I learnt Tongan. I have been told numerous times that my Tongan is broken, but I get the message across so I think thats fair enough lol. I have to be careful sometimes when speaking Tongan because some words if used differently or mispronounced may come out offensive. LOL and yes I have graciously done that a few times...

I am the second youngest of 6 siblings, all of whom are boys except me, of course. Mother passed away in 2000, I miss her so terribly even after this much time. My brother before me passed  away in `97 aged 16 from a dispute between friends one fateful evening. There remains the rest of us, two of which are in Melbourne, (me and youngest brother), two who are in Port Vila ( the eldest and third borne, they live in the Capital of Vanuatu) and one who resides in Portland, U.S.A (second eldest).

I was such the tomboy growing up, hated skirts and dresses and anything pink, loved the outdoors and getting dirty and baggy pants... I have pictures of the yesteryears and I shudder to look at them now lol. I have only just embraced my womanhood and everything ladylike upon marrying and having children. (Only two boys for now). I still have a long way to catch up but I scrub up pretty good lol.

I have a sudden interest in baking and sewing, must mean Im getting old ha! Two years shy of 30. (Horror)
Where have all the years gone?!! Anyways, its lunch time and I have to go and make lunch for my two little monkeys. My 5 year old has been kept from Prep as he has Croup, (came down with it last week but not entirely recovered yet), both he and my 3 year old combined... It is headache at its best.

Peace and Blessings till next post... xox