Jim’s Reviews > The Happy Isles of Oceania: Paddling the Pacific > Status Update
Jim
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Yes. We don't need radios and cars and money. My people say, "We will drive our cars until we run out of petrol and then we will push them into the sea to make homes for fishes. We have canoes, we have food, we will dance and sing.
— May 09, 2019 09:21PM
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Jim
is 82% done
Most of the [Polynesians] were tough and down to earth, a little gloomy and very religious. Where was the romance? I had no idea. Even the islands, so dramatic at a distance, were quite another story close up—muddy and jungly and priest-ridden, and the beaches teeming with no-see-ums they called nonos.
— May 12, 2019 10:46PM
Jim
is 64% done
The great thing [in Samoa is to be a minister in the church. People give you food and money. You have status. You can be rich. But they regard me as ridiculous, because I am a doctor. When my surgery building blew down and was demolished in the hurricane everyone stood near it and laughed. 'Look at what happened! The doctor's house is down!' The Samoans thought it was very funny.
— May 10, 2019 09:54PM
