Meet one of my new friends ! This little girl is the grand daughter of Rondi. Rondi comes over to my place twice a week and helps me out with house work. What is her name? Sorry, can't remember.
UNITECH has in my estimate around 1000 people living on campus. These people are all UNITECH staff or family, friends, wantonks of the university staff. Campus has a number of different residential areas. I happen to live in Area 3. Of an afternoon after work, I sometimes go for a walk and take the long way home, walking through some of these residential areas. I pass people and kids and families, asI get to know these people I might stop and have a chat.
Rondi and her family (about 20 of them) live in a 2 bedroom house at one end of campus located near the Madang Compound (settlement). How they can accomodate 20 people in a two bedroom house is beyond belief, but somehow they manage. As I walk past their house, there is generally one or more of the family members sitting around outside, when they see me they yell out : “Robert, we yu go?”, I normally wander over and sit down with them for a while. One of the things I am enjoying most about PNG is being invited into peoples lives and their homes. The ability of the PNG people to enjoy life and share with each other despite the poverty that surrounds them is truly inspiring. I am learning that the PNG people, on the “inside”, are truly wealthy.
I came over to PNG to teach but I seem to be doing all the learning….
tingting bilong yu…
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