Yesterday was a special day for Kiribati because the president of Taiwan arrived for an official visit. Everything was setup at the Otin Taai hotel to receive the Taiwanese delegation: the local operator worked all week-end to setup WI-FI access all other the hotel premises and a 1Mb satellite link has be contracted so that everyone could have a good internet connection (during the previous visit there had been complaints about the bad internet connection).
Sadly for my colleagues sleeping at Otin Taai they were not Taiwanese and they were asked to leave the hotel even though they had reservations for an extra night. They had the pleasure of having to look for a hotel room on the island at the last minute on the day of an official visit. One of them found a room with the missionaries of the Sacré Coeur and the other found a room in an empty house on the island; no need to say which one of them had the better night.
What was really funny yesterday is that the country decided to be clean for the president of Taiwan. You could see people with brooms sweeping near the road. I went for a walk before the arrival of the convoy to take a few pictures and I found a hole with garbage in it: instead of taking the stuff to the dump they had decided to burry it instead! It is true that it is quicker, I really didn’t think they would do such a thing. The inhabitants of Tarawa did something for the president of Taiwan that they don’t even do for themselves, I doubt that the president is aware of that.
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