Delayed departure

We were supposed to leave today for Kili, but the planes are delayed. They told us "Maybe we'll leave tomorrow." We'll see - it could be a week or even more. I'm not too disappointed, I had a lot of errands that I wouldn't have been able to get done if we'd left on time. Usually there are two planes operating under Air Marshall Islands - the "Big Plane" (about 50 passengers) and the "Small Plane" (around 20). The big one is out of commission - it needs a new engine - so the small one is all there is to transport people between the islands. For this reason, Air Marshall Islands is often nicknamed "Air Maybe". We won't be missing any school though - they make the schedule flexible enough that they can wait for us to get there before starting. The truth is, they don't really have a choice; my two housemates, Erin and Sarah, and I make up a good chunk of the faculty of the school, and there are no substitutes.
I'm uncomfortable about the unreliability of the planes because it may prevent me from attending my brother's wedding. My current plan is to leave Kili for Majuro on Friday Sept 21 or Monday Sept 24, then leave Majuro for Hawaii and then San Francisco on Wednesday Sept 26.
I bought a machete today - it's about 15 inches long and only cost 6 dollars. We also bought more than a thousand dollars' worth of food (canned vegetables, rice, flour, etc.) to ship out to our island to live on until Christmas. We will be coming back to Majuro during Christmas break, and we can buy more food then. We'll also be eating a lot of local fish, coconut, breadfruit, and pandanus, but there is not enough available on the island to live on without supplementary nourishment.
I'll probably have a lot less access to internet once I get to Kili, so I apologize in advance for the lack of updates. My understanding is that there is someone there with internet at his house, and that it is really slow.

Charlie