Posted February 27, 2006 in | Towns, PMV's & Street life |
On arriving in Goroka town, the three of us (Eli and her uncle Joel) walked across to the main town park to sit and rest for a while. The PMV ride up the Highlands highway can be and is rather tiresome. The first item on the agenda was to go and get some food, I was starving as I had skipped breakfast in the morning due to the PMV arriving at home to pick us up 45 mins early. A couple of rice balls and some cold coke later got me thinking about that pot of fresh coffee at the Bird…
Posted February 27, 2006 in | Donations in Kind |
A box full of “goodies” arrived this morning courtesy John and Therese. Thanks a million! As photos from previous give-aways suggest the 2nd hand clothes and toys that people are sending over are making many kids (and parents too of course) happy as a pig in you know what…
Posted February 27, 2006 in | Towns, PMV's & Street life |
All of the remaining photos from our trip to Goroka weekend before last have been posted to the Goroka Trip (17/2/06) photo album…
Posted February 26, 2006 in | Towns, PMV's & Street life |
I have recently discovered a whole “genre” of people that work the streets of Lae. The local shoemakers! I noticed these men when I 1st arrived 10 months ago but in the past few weeks I seem to see them everywhere around town…
Posted February 26, 2006 in | Towns, PMV's & Street life |
More photos have been posted to the Goroka Trip (17/2/06) photo album. Each photo has a caption and if you go to the photo album (by clicking the above link) you will notice a flow and a story to the photo sequence. FYI this is how most of my photo albums have been layed out…
Posted February 25, 2006 in | Home Sweet Home |
Check out the inside of my “cave” !! A couple of weeks ago I took a few photos of the inside of my home on campus. I have posted these photos to the Home sweet home photo album for your perusal…
Posted February 24, 2006 in | Towns, PMV's & Street life |
The journey up the highlands highway included the mandatory stopover at 40 Mile Market. This particular market is smack bang in the middle of the Markham Valley and its main produce being buai. People travelling back and forth between the Highlands and coastal areas always pickup some buai at these markets to take home or back to their villages. The place is filthy and there is never a shortage of street sellers and people trying to hitch a free ride up or down the highway…
Posted February 23, 2006 in | Towns, PMV's & Street life |
This past weekend I headed up to Goroka for a total of 4x days. This was my 3rd trip up to the Eastern Highlands town and was to be a little different to the previous two as I was travelling with Eli and staying with some of her relatives in a small village just outside of Goroka called “Massey”…
Posted February 22, 2006 in | Towns, PMV's & Street life |
No blog entry today!! I got into work at around 9:00am this morning and no power !! At around 2:00pm the power was still out – so I went home for a nap. When I woke up at around 5:00pm the power was back on but the water was out…
Posted February 21, 2006 in | Rantings |
The roosters wake me up,
the village stirs,
fires are lit,
and breakfast is prepared…
Losing a close friend 
“Decimation” 
Sorry for rubbing it in folks! 
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