When you’ve basically lived in Fiji all your life, it’s easy to take for granted things that happen around you that would make other people do a double take. I mean, we’ve got guys casually hopping on white hot lovo stones, smiles and jokes aplenty from each of the participants, yet because that occurs on almost a daily basis (for the benefit of the tourist dollar I must add), us locals simply nod our heads and move on. Even something as mundane as a bus ride from Nadi to Suva can be somewhat of an adventure for the inexperienced (or unprepared, either way same thing).

Sometimes, an outside view on the life in Fiji makes for a welcome read, since most things brought to the attention of the reader are often things that many of us won’t give a second thought to. Blogger cieart (with a small ‘c’ mind you) of Broken Coconut can attest to that. Although being locally born and bred, she’s spent the last two years living (read: adjusting hehe ) in Australia, and has only just recently made the mecca back to her homeland.

And while the usual sights and sounds made themselves known to her, bringing back pangs of nostalgia (“…that so called 10 minute wait at Sigatoka bus stand which turns into 30 minutes because goodness knows where the bus driver or the checker went…ah, it was good to be back!”), eventually, she started to notice the little things that made her stop and say WTF!

A few pointers from the list include:

• The price of groceries – I was visiting some family friends and i decided to make trifle which cost me almost $30 to make! I could not believe that for 1l of cream it cost me $12 and can of fruites were around $4 each.

• At the age of 29 I got asked for ID @ O’Reillys!

• Customer service or lack of.

Of course, home is always home, lolo kai with rice and all, so there was another list that was drawn up of things that will be sorely missed on the return trip back to Australia, my favourite lol’ed entry being Comsol.

Read the full post here and find yourself nodding your head in agreement, then shaking your head in amazement.

Never a dull moment in Fiji ain’t it.

Was there a moment you experienced with a shrug, but your not-local friend found amazing/awesome/disturbing?

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