PAUL SLOGGETT'S BLOG
Tribewanted's Vitika #1 November 8th - 15th, Vanua Levu, Fiji
On Saturday 8th November the first ever Tribewanted Vitika trek” began from Labasa, Vanua Levu. Vitika roughly translates as ‘cut a new path into Fiji’, and this was exactly what we were going to do!
Five people from the island of Vorovoro (Irina, Senga, Sarah, David and Gianalfredo) made the boat journey to Labasa in the morning, from where we met our fresh-into-Fiji Finish couple (Annu and Kalle) and our guides (Ana and Fillipe) and readied for the off.
After a debrief on our route and itinerary and collecting some kava and basic food for lunch on the …
Read More >>>My last two weeks as Chief on Vorovoro.
Firslty an apology, for taking so very long to write and publish my final blog from my month as Chief of Vorovoro way back in September. Life has been a little surreal for me since then, with hardly time to think, let alone sit and write my usual lengthy blogs… ...
Read More >>>Building foundations & pulling people together on Vorovoro.
For Geoff. Sorry it has been so long coming.
On Tuesday 16th of September something very special happened on Vorovoro. Tribe Manager Amy’s parents, Mary and Geoff had been on Vorovoro for some six weeks, to visit their beloved daughter and to experience this wonderful place, of which they’d …
Read More >>>My second week as chief...
This week started off with another visit to the doctors for me, which was a bit of a waste of a day on Vorovoro personally, but better news with the ear canal looking better. It’s so hard to keep from swimming and snorkeling in the beautiful waters here… hopefully my …
Read More >>>My first week as chief of Tribewanted.com, September 2008
Tags: Chiefs / Fiji
Looking back now, sat in the ecotricity hut on a sunday afternoon, the week behind me is a bit of a blur!
I’ve been in the enviable position of being installed as chief for the first month of the third year of this unique project, and all just in …
Read More >>>Tribewanted's 2nd Birthday! A chief-handover view...
Tags: Tribe / Chiefs / Team / Fijian / Fiji
Tribewanted’s 2nd Birthday!
What a day! Tuesday the 2nd of September 2008 was the 2nd birthday of Tribewanted on Vorovoro, and the preparations and subsequent celebrations were fitting to say the least! We also recieved a wonderful news from Tui Mali in what was his first English penned speech …
Read More >>>Festival of the Friendly North, Vorovoro Meke!
Vorovoro’s growing reputation for Meke earned them an invite to the annual Festival of the North this August, and we duly arrived, on mass, to show the crowd our stuff!
The festival lasts the best part of a week, and Vorovoro had already been represented by a handful of …
Read More >>>Tribewanted's Virgin Footsteps, a Trek in Vanua Levu
On Friday the 22nd of August 2008 a group of tribe members and a certain mister Ben Keene left Vorovoro for a mini-adventure, trekking into the interior of the northern Fijian mainland island of Vanua Levu.
We didn’t just decide we’d go and do this on the spur of …
Read More >>>Tribewanted Meke to ~1000 people!!
On the 14th of August 2008 Vorovoro was left empty* as the entire tribe made the trip to the All Saints Secondary School after being invited to meke for the crowd at the Cadets passing out parade.
The day began with an early breakfast at 6:30 and after loading …
Read More >>>Jazzy Geoff and the Aqua P' (Painting Api's house)
Tags: Tribe / Build / Fijian / Fiji
Api the boat captain is a popular and well known figure here on Vorovoro, and having recently completed two full years of work for the Tribewanted project we were keen to show our appreciation. On the evening of the second anniversary the tribe had some grog with the man himself …
Read More >>>Island Records: Vorovoro Sessions and a whole lot of yam
Not only had I already been lucky enough to meet Ben Keene during my visit here on Vorovoro, but his returning full of ideas and drive had prompted a lot of activity and energy amongst his TW team and the Fijians that work here and Tuesday the 10th July became …
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