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This story appeared in yesterday's issue of The National newspaper…MARION Jacka and Kevin Cotter are
Australian volunteers who, collectively, have been working in PNG for
the last seven years.
The two were in the FM…
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Downtown Goroka,
red corner,
described by many as…
the worst of the worst.
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One of the nice things about volunteering, working and living in PNG are the folks that one gets to meet along the way.
There's a whole collection of different “types” that venture the shores
of the Land…
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Story as it appeared in…and…(God please have mercy on me!!)
In Web World of 24/7 Stress, Writers Blog Till They DropBy MATT RICHTEL
Published: April 6, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO — They work long hours,
often to exhaustion. Many are…
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From boys to men…Recent story in The Post Courier…
Ritual that instills values
Identified adult males only are allowed entry.
Unnecessary people –– out!
For 30 days, 24 young boys, ages ranging from 15 to 25 have…
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We arrived back safely from “Wara-guma” a couple of hours ago. Like always our stay in the village was both relaxing and refreshing.Highlights from the weekend (in point form) are as follows:- Anthony, our irish…
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Shared a perfect day with Eli today…- Had a sleep in.- French toast for breakfast.- Eventually wandered into town.- Did a little shopping.- Went to the “Bird” for pizza (ham and pineapple) and coffee.- Wandered…
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After about 5 weeks of PNG election shenanigans and the associated violence
especially in rural areas we made it back to “Wara-Guma” yesterday. With the
two ITShare volunteers being on board for a few weeks we thought…
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What does it mean to bloginisce?Going back over my old posts and re-reading my very 1st blog entry - dated 27th of March, 2005…Hi,
My 1st journal entry, in my 1st blog on my very own…
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Nick, Bernadette and Valdek are staying with us this weekend. They drove down from Madang yesterday and will head back tomorrow. With the two of us (Nick) “married” to PNG women it'e been really nice…
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We left home at around 8:30am this morning and were planning to catch a PMV
from the main markets and head out to the village at Kaubasis. We had
arranged to meet Uncle Joel at the “Hut”…
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Eli has been working a little market of late, ice blocks mainly but occasionally some buai too. The ice blocks Eli sells are the best in the business, sweeter, colder and juicier than the competition…
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A School Fete to celebrate the opening of a
new classroom, a showground full of relatives, lots of rain and photos but more
than anything else… a heap of people off their face and plenty of associated
drunken…
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Yesterday we traveled to Kaubasis in Simbu; we managed to
leave home at around 7:30am as we wanted to be back in Goroka before dark.
After a little confusion at the main markets trying to organize a…
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Figuratively and literally! The Hospital is on the verge of
signing a lease for a house. We have been living in the Transit Lodge on the
Hospital grounds for the past five weeks and both of us…
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The sound of wailing relatives does it to me every time.
Women and men alike. Here on the Hospital grounds, everyday. On my way to work
of a morning, on my way home of an afternoon, mid-morning…
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Home for lunch!! Working and living on the hospital grounds
means that I get to go home for lunch – unless I am really hanging out for a
pie and a can of coke – in which…
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Nine more sleeps before I head back to Papua New Guinea.And when I step on that plane at Sydney airport on the 15th of Feb, I do so with…1) A trunk full of new gadgets!2)…
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