Papua New Guinea and Tok Ples
The number and variety of languages in Papua New Guinea is unbelievable. It is estimated that there are somewhere between 700 and 800 languages in this country that are currently spoken. Some suggest that this figure could be as high as 900. A tribal or local language is referred to in Tok Pisin as Tok Ples…
Will Papua New Guineans finally get to pick fruit downunder?
The Rudd government will give 2,500 visas to Pacific Islanders each year for the next three years so they can come to Australia to harvest fruit and vegetables…
10 Things I have thought about today
At times it only seems like yesterday when I desperately wanted to grow up (different to those other times when I wander when the hell am I going to grow up!)…
A couple of photos of Eli in Hospital
Here’s a couple of photos I’ve been meaning to post of Eli when she was in hospital last week…
Papua New Guineans have a great sense of humour
One of the special traits about melanesian culture is the element of human interaction. Also, if one is lucky enough to have a house in a town somewhere – as we do – there will never be a shortage of family or clan members needing a place to crash for day or two (or more) that coming knocking on the front gate…
WordPress Plugins Rock!
I’ve been meaning to share with you for a while now exactly what I run under the hood (so to speak) as far as Wordpress plugins – which ones and and why I have these installed…
How smart is Your Right Foot?
Try this…
PNG Village generosity
I stayed home today to be with Eli and to make sure that she’s OK – she’s just had an operation and was discharged over the weekend from Goroka General Hospital after being there for five days.…
Expat gone native!
In response to the post I did last week on “Melanesian Quirks!” – I got the following response from my friend Nick…
PNG Bloggers that I follow
As we come to the end of yet another week I would like to take a few moments to reflect on and acknowledge a few PNG bloggers and their blogs – ones that I regularly follow, read and if inspired drop in a comment or two…
