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Thursday was fancy dress night! Each gap year team plans various activities such as fancy dress nights, school fundraisers, talent nights and fundraisers as part of their project. These nights always add a lot of fun to the Fijian evenings and are a great chance to party with the neighboring villages too. The theme picked by the team was ‘Countries around the World’. The only rule was that you couldn’t choose your own country.

Nasesara, the village we walk through everyday on our way to school had invited the team visit them for some grog and hop hop and so it was decided to take the fancy dress night to them. And so after dinner everyone disappeared off into their houses to finalize their costumes. Some great imagination was shown and the team, using what little ‘costumes’ they could make on a remote tropical island!

Amy and Sarah chose France as their country. Charlotte and Memphis got their claim on Fiji, and so with the help of their family put together impressive costumes of leaves and grass skirts with Memphis even carrying a spear used in the traditional Meke’s. Having volunteers from England, Scotland, Germany and America on this expedition Ollie and Will decided to swap countries and clothes for the night and go as each other. The biggest cheer of the night was when all 4 boys managed to convince their Fijian dad to pull on a Kilt and Scotland t-shirt to represent Johnny and Berties home country. Johnny also managed to convince one of our girls to lend him their jumba dress and some accessories and went to the party as a Fijian lady!Bertie and team leader Ronnie went for a Greek theme. Next up were Polly and Lucy, their families somehow managed to produce authentic Indian Saris complete with head dress and make up for the occasion and the girls had a great laugh getting all done up for the night.

Team leader Lulu also got his hands on some Indian dress and squeezed himself into it which the team found hilarious. Alice picked Mauri as her theme and even produced some impressive art work on her own face to complete the costume. Last but by no means least was leader Ray who was clearly thinking outside the box and proceeded to go as ‘Where’s Wally’ claiming that Wally pops up all around the world and so he keeping with theme of the night.

With everyone dressed it was time to make their way across to Nasesara for a warm welcome and some great cheers from the villagers. After a great spread of tea, cookies and cake the guitars were soon out and the party started properly. A great evening was had by everyone with some of our gap year volunteers partying until well after midnight.