My Position and Responsibilities

In 1994 I was sent by the U.S. Peace Corps to Fiji as a teacher trainer. For two years I worked as a lecturer at the Fiji College of Advanced Education, the country's only tertiary training institute for secondary-school teachers. In this capacity I revised, developed, and taught a wide range of courses through the departments of Social Science and Language and Literacy, including Communication and Study Skills (within a ESOL framework), Sociology, Language and Culture, Creative Writing, Pacific Literature, Introductory Linguistics, and Approaches to Textual Interpretation and Criticism. In November, 1996, four courses whose curricula I developed were cross-credited with courses offered at the University of the South Pacific.

In addition, I participated in some extra-curricular activities. Most notably, I directed two plays that were performed publicly by the students in my academic division. The first (1995) was an excerpted version of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and the second (1996) was a play by local playwright (now a professor at the University of Hawaii) Vilisoni Hereniko called "The Last Virgin in Paradise."

My students are now teachers in Fiji's secondary school system.

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