The Exorcist...Chuuk style...

This is no joke. I was eating dinner (rice and some beef stew with Lawrey's season salt ....Garden Catering season salt) with a few teachers, and Father Author, the Fijian Jesuit Director, was sitting with us. Reaally smart guy, on the level. I don't know how it came up, but he was talking about a student of his (back when he was head mater at a Fijian school) was possessed by an evil spirit. He was completely serious. The other Jesuit priest at the table heard of this too and took the conversation seriously.
For a week this 16 year old boy would fall on the floor between 5 and 8 at night and a girl would possess his body. Fr. Author was summoned to the dorm where this boy lay, and the "girl" spirit would be laughing at him. He sprayed holy water on the boy and everything, asking the girl spirit to leave this boy, and that this boy belonged to him. He didn't perform an actual exorcism because he needed permission from the bishop and it's a very risky process. How crazy is that! Apparently possessions are normal here in the Pacific. But only with a certain age bracket, something like 12-18 year olds. It was really interesting to here. The other priest, Fr. Bill, really beleieved in evil spirits, since he beleives equally in good spirits. One, long ago when he was a young priest, he was playing around with a Ouija Board, just kidding around. He was playing with a male and female student. Out of no where, the girl said she was pregnant. Fr. Bill asked from who. She said it was an evil spirit. So he jokingly decided to ask the Ouija Board who was the father. After a while, the three of them apparently spelled out "The child is mine." Freaky stuff. So just to let you know, possessions are a regular occurance here, so if i mention it in the future, don't be freaked out. Don't be freaked out by this blog, i just thought it was interesting.

Also, dont' see The Emperor's Club with Kevin Kline. We thought it would inspire us to be awesome teachers, like Dead Poets Society. Awful movie.