Comments on: The 10 things that annoy me about PNG http://www.trupela.com/2008/07/07/the-10-things-that-annoy-me-about-png/ Personal adventures in the Land of the Unexpected Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:59:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Robert http://www.trupela.com/2008/07/07/the-10-things-that-annoy-me-about-png/comment-page-1/#comment-328 Robert Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:17:07 +0000 http://www.trupela.com/?p=4962#comment-328 Nick, Thanks for your empathy bro! I'm really glad that you are able to connect with your tambu's as far away as Canberra. This interaction and belonging that we both experience as a result of being married to melanesian women - is something that few would probably understand. The taro and coconut is making me hungry and it's only 10am!! If your wantoks are everywhere in Canberra - imagine the multitudes that crowd me here in Goroka... the tribal lands are only an hours drive away!! Em inap long nau. Kets. R Nick,

Thanks for your empathy bro!
I’m really glad that you are able to connect with your tambu’s as far away as Canberra. This interaction and belonging that we both experience as a result of being married to melanesian women - is something that few would probably understand.
The taro and coconut is making me hungry and it’s only 10am!!
If your wantoks are everywhere in Canberra - imagine the multitudes that crowd me here in Goroka… the tribal lands are only an hours drive away!!

Em inap long nau.

Kets.

R

]]> By: Nick Reese http://www.trupela.com/2008/07/07/the-10-things-that-annoy-me-about-png/comment-page-1/#comment-325 Nick Reese Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:51:02 +0000 http://www.trupela.com/?p=4962#comment-325 I feel for you brother! There's nothing like a good dummy spit to get things off your chest. I had a really positive Melanesian experience last night - the Solomon Islands 30th Anniversary of Independence party in Canberra. Custom dancing, feasting, and classic speech giving - and of course a big plate of take home food (I know what the wife will be having for breakfast - Taro in coconut milk). Now that we have a half Solomon child we have been sucked in even tighter to the community - little Leleana was related by blood or marriage to at least twenty people in the room last night - those wantoks are everywhere!! I feel for you brother! There’s nothing like a good dummy spit to get things off your chest. I had a really positive Melanesian experience last night - the Solomon Islands 30th Anniversary of Independence party in Canberra. Custom dancing, feasting, and classic speech giving - and of course a big plate of take home food (I know what the wife will be having for breakfast - Taro in coconut milk). Now that we have a half Solomon child we have been sucked in even tighter to the community - little Leleana was related by blood or marriage to at least twenty people in the room last night - those wantoks are everywhere!!

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