"Dinner with a local family" Top 5 Page for this destination Nadi by csarah

I was in the South Pacific to do the field work for my thesis. So every opportunity I was offered to join the locals and to have a look inside their lives and experience it from close, I took eagerly. This time my taxidriver invited me to have dinner with his family. We had dinner on the ground, his wife had to put her nicest dress on and the taxidriver only ate after I had finished my meal. I was really impressed by their hospitality.

The taxidriver Charlie, invited some neighbours to drink some kava, a local drink, but all did not eat because I was there. They told me it was a real party to have a guest at their house so they were happy not to eat at all. Again I felt very small at this point and was really impressed by their kindness and openess towards strangers. Something we in the West could learn from.

The children were all so cute, I wondered what will become of them, will they finish school or go to high school or university one day like we do, I doubt it ..