Yo Ben! Ben’s a dab hand at anything video – production, cameraman, producer, whatever and those that have worked with him count him the best. Go Ben! Ben’s kinda stoked to get selected to be SWAP Ambassador No 4. and can’t wait to get on up here and do his bloodhound thing. Go, Go Ben! He’ll be filming the Paramount Chief’s daughters second cousin playing with coconuts in the far reaches of the Amazon Safata on his first day in the country. Ho Ho Ben! He’ll be running over chickens, and pigs and wildlife and anything else that gets in his way of getting the scoop on the latest gossip in Samoa. Oh No Ben! If he gets his way he’ll be knocking out marketing videos and docos by the truckload before the sun sets over the coral lagoon for the last time and he’s returned with a thump to reality home. Go Home Ben! Take out shares in the Samoa Postal Service as Ben ramps up to send a gazillion postcards to his son back home. Ben shouts about himself at his YouTube channel – search for Redstar309Z

Watch out for Helena – she’s got energy to burn and tops the class where ever she goes (which is anywhere from South America to the Pacific from all accounts). You wanna hear her referrals talk about her – she’s a cross between Mother Teresa, Shakespeare and Christopher Columbus; she speaks 43 different languages fluently including Swahili; her uncle was a big chief somewhere up north; she fits in naturally to every social circle from the Queen’s inner circle to the Otara fleamarkets and is friends with them all even before they meet her – if you believe it all. She was the first to apply for the Journo/Blogging job (inside an hour would you believe!); the first to really get into The Samoa Story thing and the first journo to get on a plane and hike it up here. She’s really got into it and is having a great time up here. Go Helena!

Dennis says that Scott is a mate of his going back a dozen years or so and does all his tech drawings. When approached directly, Scott always goes quiet about this friendship thing and mumbles something about the 5th amendment under his breath. He seems to agree on the dozen or so years thing with Dennis though. He’s a real whizz – well according to him that is. We keep trying to work out what he’s a whizz at but haven’t quite nailed it. Sometimes it seems to be engineering things. Other times he’s an architect extraordinaire. Then he’s all on about good design or proper construction methods, surveying land or going on about aesthetics, or music or the leaky building thing, or whatever. We think he’s just good at drinking Steinlager and all the rest just seems to happen around him somehow. He’s got no idea what being a SWAP Ambassador means but reckons that all expenses paid trips to Samoa for regular "site visits" are absolutely, totally, very important and so is he. We absolutely concur about the trips part.