Solomon Islands sadness

It's difficult to explain the tragedy here in words so I was able to get hold of some pictures (not taken by me...). Parts of the city is burnt to the ground and millions of dollars are literally up in flames.

Good news is things are calming down and security is at least partly restored by the large number of Australian troops flown in. We still have a curfew but hope that will be lifted soon.

I was hoping to post more pictures but couldn't figure out how... Will try again later.

-Camilla

Solomon Islands!

I am now in the beautiful Solomon Islands!

I wish I could say I have been laying on the beach sipping colourful tropical drinkies, but I'm afraid that's very far from the truth. So far it's been lots of work and very little pleasure but I hope that will change next week when we go to some of the other islands (at least it'd be nice to combine the work with SOME pleasure!).

One thing that hits you in the face when you get here is that everything, especially communication, is crazy expensive. Making a phone call is ridiculous, my $20 phone card lasted me 2 minutes yesterday! A sim card is almost $100 so I'm not doing that (plus it never works anyway...) If all of this doesn't discourage you and you should still want to contact me here you might be able to do so by calling my hotel - Mendana hotel - at +677 20071.

-Camilla

I am officially a blogger!

Since I am not exactly good at keeping regular email contact with all my friends, I thought I'd give blogging a try! Hopefully I'll be better at this (and keep at it for more than a week..) and since I'll be traveling a lot I thought it would be a good way to keep all of you updated on what I'm doing and where I am + share pictures and stories! If I feel like it I might even post some of my deep (..?) reflections from time to time.

xoxo
Camilla

PS: I'm sure I'll have plenty of start-up isses since I'm not exactly technical so please bear with me...