Post #103868 by virani on Sat, Jul 24, 2004 4:20 AM

The way things goes, I think i want to go live on a marquesas island, and sell arts on Ebay or to Tikicentralites !!

You know I spoke with a wood carvers in Hanavave (Fatu Hiva island), he told me about his life, as we shared a grapefruit on the small harbour, waiting for the Aranui to come pick us.
He told me when the Aranui was coming, he sold maybe 1 or 2 tikis, but that made his day (or even his week), and sometimes there's some small tourists boats for usa or Australia, and he could sell even more. But, he didn't want to make to much tikis, even if he could sold them easyly.
He prefers not to work too much, and if he's hungry, he have plenty of fruits on his backyard, or he could go fishing.
He even told me : "you know, some tourists comes and ask : what a fantastic artcraft, how long does it take to do one tiki like this, and I reaply : well, at least a month, but you know, I can make a tiki in a day".
This guy could make easy money, especially with Tahiti, where everybody wants Marquesian art, but he don't want to work too hard.
That day, I had a good lesson of life.

And now, what I want more in life is going back to Hanavave, play soccer with the kids again, share a grapefruit with this guy, and stay there forever.