We woke up to rain - or should I say that TC and Paul woke up to rain. I didn't get up for another two hours. After breakfast, we decided we should go in again to try and find the councilman. We didn't find him (he was stuck in Majuro since the AMI flight was cancelled), but two girls helped us find his wife
We found her at St. Joseph's elementary school, which is a private school that was started by the Sacred Heart Parish, the Catholic church on island. The first person we talked to was Sister Lumina, who is a recent arrival to Jabor, Jaluit. She is originally from Germany, but lived in South Korea for the past forty years before moving to Jaluit. She had interesting history to share with us.
Apparently, her order was the one who founded the church on Jaluit in the early 1900s. Then after Germany lost WWI and the League of Nations gave Japan control of the Marshalls, the Japanese forced out all Germans, including missionaries. So her order left in 1919 and just returned last year.
After hanging out at the school for a while, we moved on to PJ's Café since we felt the need for coffee. We were delighted to find that they also had homemade donuts with a cinnamon glaze. Yum!
While at PJ's, a teacher from Jaluit High School showed up. I forgot to describe Jaluit High School. We went to the campus yesterday, and it was surprisingly large and fairly new. The high school is not only for kids from Jaluit, but also Ailinglaplap, Namu, Jabwot, Kili, Namorik, and Ebon (basically all the atolls south of Kwajalein in the Ralik chain). There are about 300 kids who board there. They have a girls' dorm and a boys' dorm with dorm mothers and fathers. Plus there are three cooks who work to keep the boarding students fed three meals a day, seven days a week.
Back to the teacher, though - his name is Kenneth and he's from Sri Lanka. He's the computer teacher at Jaluit High School. He really seems to enjoy it on Jaluit. He said the climate is just like the climate at home, and he enjoys the slower pace and the fact that it's a community where everyone knows each other and helps each other. He said it was Sri Lanka before it grew to a population of 80 million.
Later we ran into T-Jar who told us that he and the other people hanging out at PJ's saw the guys go out fishing in the dinghy the evening before. They said, "Yes, but we were also trying to get some surf. Unfortunately, we got no real waves and no fish." T-Jar said, "But what was that big silver fish we saw you bring on board?" We all laughed when we realized he had mistaken the surfboard bags for big fish!
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