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Since I could not directly post on your comments for reasons I don't know myself, here are my comments;


 Fiji Rugby
1. http://fijirugby2011.blogspot.com/2011/10/six-players-to-face-fru.html

Your blog sheds light to the most debated upon issue in our country today, the future of the game we so much love and are passionate about. People in Fiji 'eat, drink and breathe rugby' so to speak. The problem with us (yes, all of us, the union, players and the public should all take the blame) is we never learn from our past experiences. We continue to do things that we know would lead us nowhere.  Getting players from different parts of the world just weeks before the tournament and expecting them play like a team is a crazy ambition to begin with. Then there’s the mad public, who no matter what demands a win not realizing the amount of pressure this puts in the team. And how can we alienate the ineffective and very inefficient team management.

I doubt our rugby will improve significantly in the coming years and neither shall we be able to see that caliber and brand of rugby we are known for in the world. While we couldn't stomp our mark at the world's greatest rugby event, we should learn from our closest neighbors, Samoa and Tonga who despite continuous hurdles performed exceptionally well and surpassed many expectations, mine included. I get the constant battering from my closest Samoan and Tongan friends on Fiji's performance, but Fiji was never my top choice team at the World Cup anyway.

World Without Volunteers
2. http://worldwithoutvolunteers.blogspot.com/


Lusia, you blog inspires me and makes me feel so proud of being an active volunteer. And yes you are right when you say volunteers need to be appreciated. The universal understanding that volunteerism is doing things without expecting anything in return is spot on but there are also certain ways volunteers need to be treated or rather looked after. Most organizations take a lot of advantage of its volunteers, I have myself witness this and while I do not complain, I believe it is humane and morally right if these perceptions on volunteers change and they are treated they way they truly deserve.

Volunteers are truly unsung heroes and backbone of a number of regional and international organizations in Fiji and the Pacific and I suppose thanks are in order.

FJ Student Life 
3.  http://fjstudentlife.blogspot.com/2011/10/student-favouritismunfair-teachers.html


This is an important point you putting across Sherita. I remember giving a talk at the school assembly some years back talking about favoritism (which was just part of the whole talk). While I was applauded initially, a lot of teachers later approached me and asked me why I had raised that in my talk, to which I responded I had been a victim.

Whether you agree or not, Fiji’s school system is rather tailor made for favoritism to take place. It’s like providing a bird with a nest to lay eggs. There can be a various reasons for this but one that I would like to highlight is that of personal connections. Given Fiji’s size, it is no hiding the fact you would probably be related in some twisted way or the other to the person you going to share your lunch with at school. Such was the case when it came to some teachers and students.  Somehow magically, the answers from the text books were wrong and what the teacher say no matter how irrational it may seem would be correct to suit certain sectors of the class.

But the true results were the national tests, in which I exceedingly succeeded much to the disappointment of certain people.