August 2005
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Area 5 – The Boys Hostel
The residential section of the UNITECH campus is divided up into a number of distinct housing areas. The section where…
Will there be a BBQ this evening ?
Good question !…
Rain and blackouts…
You have’nt experienced rain until you have experienced the rain in Lae. (I hear that Lae gets between 6 and 7 meters of rain a year). It has been raining solidly now for days and does…
BBQ tomorrow evening…
The gathering will be held at Godfery’s place and I will chip in for some sausages, bread and tomato sauce.
Aussie aussie aussie oy oy oy…
Between the Unexpected…
PNG is described as the Land of the Unexpected. But what about those times between the unexpected? What about those times when nothing much is happening and things are quiet? What then?…
Marking…
Marking assignments and exams is a pain in the butt. I have a whole lot of stuff I needed to start marking early last week and guess what. I haven’t started yet. You know how sometimes you need to start something and you just can’t…
Has Rob turned into a churchie ?
Periodically I attend the Baptist Church at Tent City. Tent City is a settlement / suburb of Lae and is situated about 8 mins drive from UNITECH away from Lae…
A shadow of my former self…
For those of you wandering if I have lost any weight since arriving in PNG. Please refer to the following photo which was taken last Saturday…
Nothing like letting go of a “little” tension…
This past Friday the students were involved in a good old fashioned stone fight and released some tension in the process. As I left work I noticed some commotion near the main entrance of UNITECH (commonly known as UNIGATE). As I got closer I realised that the students were involved in a stone fight with some of the local lads from Taraka…
I have introduced a wishlist…
I have introduced a wishlist. The items that I intend to add over time to this wishlist are not for myself but for people that I have met here in PNG. Many things are easy to come by and others not. An example of items that are scarce are books. The 1st entry on my wishlist is a book which I am trying to locate for my colleague and friend…
