Well, probably the most crisis like event - if you want to call it that - arrived yesterday with the breakout of five prisoners from a nearby prison and proceeded to go on a crime spree throughout Suva.
There was a prison breakout and a bank robbery which was close to where some of the volunteers work and live. So it was quite close to home!
You can read a bit more about what happened in the Fiji Times: High Security Alert
But it was interesting to watch how different people reacted and responded to the situation. OK, we were never really in any danger. It was more of a post event feeling of vulnerability that just made me want to go home, hide in my house and have my housemates around me. It was an unexpected emotion!
It wore off pretty quickly though - logic and rationality kicked back in quite soon after. But everything seems to be back in place today. One can only assume the road blocks across the island will pick these gentlemen up sooner or later.
And now time to get excited about going away for the weekend!
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