Hiking for two days without shoes and other skills that will be completely useless when I return to US.

These are just some of my many new skills that will be rendered absolutely useless and soon forgotten upon returning to the good old comfortable usa.

1 Killing and dressing a pig, chicken or fish
2 Doing anything and everything with a machete
3 Gardening in the tropics. It’s easy as long as you don’t bury it upside down it will grow. I’ve had particular success with peanuts, pumpkin, cucumber and onion
4 Reading the secret meaning behind what ni-vans are saying, i.e. reading ni-vans minds. It takes a lot of cultivation of relationships, observation of behavior, and analysis of motives to understand even a basic conversation. Essentially people lie expecting that you know their lying. So then it’s not really lying, if you have an understanding that one person is lying. At least that’s the local theory.
5 Staying clean without running water
6 Cooking like a ni-van: Cutting food without a cutting board, using my hands as a cutting board while sitting on a stool 5 inches off the ground.
7 Using coconut milk in every meal
8 Catching crabs with my bare hands and bare feet and tying them to a stick with a vine.
9 Baking delicious cakes, bread, and quiches in a pot over a wood fire
10 Speaking Bislama sign language, (also speaking Bislama (Pidgen English) for that matter)
11 Hiking barefoot all day long
12 Sleeping without a mattress