pippamatt

The last goodbye

Posted by pippamatt | 7th September 2006

The last goodbye

We made our final departure from Ambrym on Wednesday. As you can all imagine, it was an incredibly emotional day and we found it very hard to say goodbye to all the beautiful people we have shared the last year with.

We had a hoard of people come around very early morning (6.30am) to help carry our bags down the hill (we weren’t quite ready yet as our boat wasn’t going to arrive until 10.30am!). An old man from a nearby village had passed away so everyone was on their way for the funeral. It meant we only had a few close people spending our last few hours on the beach before the boat arrived to whisk us away

As a last final gesture, we were asked if we would like to lay the first foundation stone for the Tourist Information Centre that we had helped receive an AUSAID grant for. We were honoured by the thought and mixed up a bit of concrete, black sand and coral to make a small block of concrete. We filled a small hole and laid a black stone on top. The C

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