Word: tahitian
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...those who serve first attend the Missionary Training Center in Provo, which can handle 3,000 students at a time. Part of their studies includes intensive language training for several hours a day, seven days a week. From Armenian to Vietnamese -- including such low-demand tongues as Estonian, Tahitian and Icelandic -- 38 different languages are taught at the center, usually by former missionaries or foreign students from nearby universities. At Mormon-backed Brigham Young University, more than 60% of the 28,000 students acquire extensive foreign-language experience...
...average Tahitian island, as it turns out, is ringed by a coral atoll that breaks the surf, making the lagoon a lovely protected place to anchor a sailboat, but also preventing the formation of beaches. Mostly the shore is lined with large rocks and stretches of dirty gravel...
Maupiti is also very isolated. Only four other foreigners--a pair of Canadian college students and a German couple--came to the island the entire time we were there. We all stayed at Maupiti's only hotel, "Mama Roro's," which is run by a little old Tahitian woman called Mama Roro...
Another thing about the smaller Tahitian islands: you shouldn't drink the water there. Or at least, I shouldn't have. And neither should my mother, or the Canadians, because we all rapidly fell victim to a mysterious disease later tentatively identified as Dengue fever. (The Germans were spared because they drank only beer...
...opium warlords in the nearby Golden Triangle, or catches the sense of Viet Nam as one floats along the Mekong. Other, less adventurous souls simply sink into one of Thailand's seaside dreams: Pattaya, the "sea, sand and sin" city just 90 minutes from Bangkok; or Phuket, a Tahitian strip of bungalows along the emerald-green Andaman Sea that is home to Club Med and a host of other beach resorts; or, for the bargain-seeking pleasure lover, the Crusoe simplicity of Ko Phangan, an island free of electricity, where beachside huts go for as little...