The Glam Packer in Vanuatu?!?!?

After completing a 5 month stint alone in the Southern hemisphere, spending 4 and a half months working and travelling around New Zealand and a further 2 weeks visiting Melbourne, Australia, The Yasawa Islands in Fiji (the place where she picked up her name), Western Samoa and Hong Kong, The Glam packer is making plans for her next big adventure, hence the constant use of Gap year message board www.gapyear.com.
After falling in love with Fiji and the Melanesian people, I've decided that my next big trip will take me around the many Islands of the South Pacific concentrating on those which inhabit the Melanesian people, these include: Fiji, Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands and Paupa New Guinea. After much deliberation I have decided that Vanuatu is the place that I would most like to visit (partly due to the amount of enthusiasm that other who have been there have talked about it, especially the Peace Corps guy I met in Taupo, New Zealand), therefore I embarked on some preliminary research for my future trip. After numerous days searching on the web for travel options in Vanuatu I came across a 6 month volunteer programme in Vanuatu with charity Lattitude. After many researching the company and having many conversations with staff and past volunteers I went ahead and completed the application.
Then (dum dum dum, and there's a then) came the deterrents, first there was the need for a reference from a referee that I don't really have, then... the need for a deposit to secure my place on the programme that I'm yet to poses due to my voluntary unemployment, then came the biggest deterrents, a website designed by a volunteer for people contemplating volunteering in Vanuatu and a Facebook group I stumbled upon for those embarking on the volunteer programme that I wish to. What is important to remember is that I am Glam packer, not your average backpacker hence the name. Unfortunately I am yet to lose that streak of shallowness I poses and whilst travelling my appearance and self hygiene does not take a back seat. On my previous travels I did manage to balance the task of sustaining my image whilst totally embracing care-free travelling. However although I enjoy the care-free attitude and reduced desire to wear make-up and 'dress up' that backpacking evokes in me, I can't ignore the discomfort that Vanuatu village life might pose to be.
The few facts that have caused a rift in my decision to volunteer in Vanuatu:
*The colony of head lice which will inevitably infest my hair, I hear that are lice in abundance in the villages and there is no way of avoiding those itchy buggers!
*The cockroaches who will become my unwanted house mates.
*Not to mention the rats and the geckos
*The feral dogs and cats that roam aimlessly around the villages (I'm a beg wimp when it comes to cats and dogs, and the ones that I have come into contact with have always been domesticated, imagine me around feral ones).
*The lack of hot water, (I can take washing her body with cold water, especially If the weather is hot, but the hair just won't be able to take it!)
*Then there's the hair in general, what to do with it?!?!?!
*The potential of becoming a victim of sexual harassment, I've been told that women volunteers are risk, just because at times the local males interpret 'friendliness' in a different way. Apparently men and women to not interact with each other unless in a relationship and to be 'friends' means to have a relationship. Being a Black western traveller amongst many white westerners in the South Pacific, I attracted a lot of unwanted attention especially from locals who had rarely seen or met a black westerner visiting their Islands before. Many of them were intrigued by me and a Fijian man told me that if I were Fijian I would be the 'most be beautiful Fijian woman' haha (the cheese), so anyway you catch my drift. And in Samoa, I attracted just as much attention if not more and a nephew of the owner of the fales I was staying at propositioned me .
With all this said I am still adamant to travel to Vanuatu, but I'm unsure whether I am ready to spend 6 months out of her comfort zone in a place so alien to what I know. It's not the case of being in Vanuatu for 6 months, but village life, where ever it may be. Despite this apprehension I know deep down that travelling to Vanuatu as a volunteer will be one of the most rewarding and best things that I will ever do, just as long as I overcome the fears that are holding my back.