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Pohnpei Day 3: Airport Goodbyes

6/20/2014

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Today I went to the  airport again for some early goodbyes. Brian and a few other volunteers finished their service in Pohnpei and left to return to the US. Leaving Pohnpei is a big deal both for the volunteers and those close to them here. It is a custom in Pohnpei for everyone who is able to go to the airport to say goodbye to friends and family members who are leaving. For volunteers it means host family, co-workers, students, and other volunteers. For Brian and the others leaving, the small airport was packed with those saying their emotional farewells. It is amazing to see how one person had built relationships and impacted so many people in just a few years.

After the emotional goodbyes, I took the remaining JVs out to Arnold's restaurant for lunch. Afterward we got ice cream and walked back to their apartment across town. I hung out with them and three Peace Corps volunteers for the rest of the day. It was a great day minus having to say goodbye to some good friends. I'm really glad that I can hang out with the JVs and other volunteers here. It really makes it so much easier being back!
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    Brad Rentz

    I am a doctoral student in the Linguistics Department at the University of Hawai‛i at Mānoa. My research focuses on language documentation and conservation, sociolinguistics, language and gender, acoustic phonetics, discourse, quantitative approaches to linguistics, Pacific creoles, and Micronesian languages. The primary languages that I work with are Ngatikese, Ngatik Men's Creole, Pohnpeian, and other languages of the  Chuukic-Pohnpeic subgroup.

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