So nice to see you guys warming up with me! Season coming soon!

>>> I also saw the tweet marked Sept 13 from Christina Chaw...question, I know that Samoa just recently changed their time. At the time of filming, Aug 1 to Sept 8, were Samoa and Fiji on the same time? If so, can we deduce that she was actually in Fiji and not in Samoa? If she does, off the cuff, note that she had been in Fiji, than clearly, she had to have been a pre-merge boot, as the jury would be sequestered far closer to the TC set. But, could folks in Samoa refer to their time zone as "Fiji time"....say as we here in Ohio refer to our time zone as EST....?

Good questions. Here is my take and an explanation.

Samoa changed its date, but not its time of day. Samoa and Fiji are one hour apart. I am not aware of any regional expression such as "Fiji Time" outside of Fiji.

Now, we must keep in mind that contestants can lie when they tweet. That is, she could have just returned from Samoa, but called it Fiji as part of her cover story. Her tweet was set to private though.

Here's the thing, Fiji makes total sense as the holding place for the booted pre-mergers. I looked into this resort after I made this post. This resort is 15 minutes from NAN international airport, the Fiji gateway.

Now when the first two seasons were filmed in Samoa, ANZ was flying a non-stop from LAX to APW (Apia, Samoa). However, that flight is no more, and the only ways to connect with one stop to Apia are through Fiji and Honolulu. The Honolulu flights are only twice a week, and not particularly an efficient way to route it, so SEG almost certainly used Fiji as its transit country.

So it is entirely efficient to park the pre-jurors a short shuttle away from the airport to await the rest of the cast so that they can return together. I think the days of exotic trips to Patagonia and so forth are gone. Budget cuts.

The key word that jumps out at me from CC's tweet is "paradise." She misses it. The game is not paradise. Late-gamers and jurors tweet about how grateful they are to be back, but her tweet sounds like a person who was having a wonderful time and is sorry to be back in the rat-race.

As noted, tweets can be complete fabrications, but I tend to think the underlying state of mind is still going to shape the fabrication. If a person is homesick, there are ways to fib while still expressing that sentiment.

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