http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Global-Adventuress/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Global Adventuress en-us Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:24:47 +0000 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 07:24:47 +0000 PNG News Just VisitingApril 2005This is the last PNG News To anyone who read each and every one of these congratulations welcome to my snakes and ladders experiences. If you have been more discriminating in your reading you will be aware of the varied quality of the reports depending on my moods. I am not of this place and my time here has been a collage of bright meri blouse encounters. Ways http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-32742.html PNG News Up the Lazy RiverMarch 25 2005 It was like you would imagine it floating on a log in truth it was a long dug out canoe with a 25 hp engine visiting dusty cathedral proportioned haus tambarans sometimes called haus boys with earth tone painted shields and totems. Planti of crocodiles marsupials and insects in the swamps and amazing birds including white and black herons and birds http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-32736.html PNG News Understanding ContrastsJanuary 24 2005 ldquoWhatrdquo is not to understand and ldquowhatrdquo is to understand or not is not to understand that even when ldquowhatrdquo is understood it is not understood for ldquowhatrdquo is to understand and ldquowhatrdquo is not to understand ldquowhatrdquo is ldquowhatrdquo and ldquois notrdquo is ldquois notr http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-32631.html PNG News Three Countries December 20 2004 Summer Solstice I want to reassure you all I am fine and wish you a fine summerwinter solstice and a happy 2005. I am at no risk. A month in Brisbane allowed me some perspective into the tight hot world of my Madang existence. On arrival back brother Andrew told me the news brother Hugo the Swiss religious farmer come DWU driver killed a local who http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-24027.html PNG News 19 Liklik longwayJust got back from trying out a crackers idea that two English volunteers had. They figured it would be possible to bike from Bogia all the way back to Madang. The road hugs the coast all the way southwards. Only an Englishman and a Canadian woman would actively seek hardship and pathos by trying to cycle 200 kilometres in the tropics in one weekend. On the crappiest b http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-21101.html PNG News 18 Nigerian Independence Day October 4 2004This week is exam time and so far I have spared you the inevitable tests of learning. Life has become slow motion for me and fastpaced for instructors. An article in last weekrsquos National newspaper outlined how in the cycle of financial crunches students have turned against the administration for not allowing them to take their exams http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-19777.html PNG News 16 The Road to BundiAugust 26 2004Well it should have been the road to Bundi however the policemanrsquos truck was bugarap and he turned back at 515am. So Jamie my 24 year old British fellow trekker and I went back to sleep at the Catholic Mission and then spent yet another day walking to Brahmin. On this final hike six members of the Warriors Brahminrsquos under 21 rugby t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-19288.html PNG News 15 Under July 18 2004 This week's theme simply underUnder surfaces my counter PNG culture and the Pacific ocean Under my counterUnder my counter is a half dozen canned products from Australia In my fridge most things come from AustraliaExcept if it is from the Philippines or SingaporeMy shopping basket is a lesson in the high cost of AIDThi http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18979.html PNG News 14 Sargent Major fish frenzyJune 12 2004 Sitting on a dock outside of Finschhafen wasting time. Four Canadians trying to get to Tami Islands.Patrick drops a Lae Biscuit cracker into the sea and a dozen fist sized sargent majors swim every which way. It is difficult to watch as the sea motion from Sunday nightrsquos sixteen hour boat trip is still present. One successful stripped http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18839.html PNG News 17 Like every Place you have never Been Air Nuigini slogan from David Millarrsquos timeSeptember 11 2004Firstly you need to note that the above is how people Capitalize letters here. It drives me bananas. And related to going lsquobananasrsquo this morning a man came to my house selling bananas from my own garden. Two trees had recently fallen due to the heavy weight of t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-19490.html PNG News 13April 26 2004 Brother Pat the elder and mediator who worked in the Bougainville crisis told me about a man who wanted to train with him.ldquoBut you are known in the community to beat your wiferdquo suggested Brother Pat.His answer ldquoShe is not my wife she is my girlfriend.Domestic violence and rape are rampant throughout the country itrsquos out of control. In f http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/blog-18713.html PNG News 12April 7 2004 Have you ever woken up in a beautiful lodge in the mountains in a foreign tropical rainforest with large cinnamon trees and found that you were surrounded by people half your age And you wonder to yourself why do I feel so culturally maladjusted That was Saturday. By dinnertime I felt myself up until I ate the turtle egg. Soft boiled t http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18686.html PNG News 11 Bougainville Crisis explained Some of the instructors that I work with blame the current failing economy on the Bougainville crisis. Both the closing of the profitable foreign owned copper mine and the national funds required to help establish law and order have cost the country dearly. Bougainville people are distinctive looking. Many consider other Papua New Guineans brown skinned http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18588.html PNG News 10 Melting ice cubesFebruary 17 2004 How long does it take for my ice cubes to melt Less time than it takes to play two hands of bridge. And that is after the sun has set.Yes I have finally found four other whites to play bridgeA New Zealander who has us each take back our card and position it as a winning trick vertical or losing horizontalA cautious Australian who once http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18540.html PNG News 8 Snakes and Ladders In this life of snakes and ladders I am definitely on a ladder. LADDERSLast Monday night I went by boat with the Hash Harriers to Kranket bearing candy for the island childrenrsquos Xmas. The island is a community of thatched sago huts on stilts with a circle of outhouses in the sea as there is no water. The perfectly groomed lawns and never ending numbers of http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18517.html PNG News 9 Papua New Guinea The Land of the UnexpectedJanuary 26 2004For the same reason that Sheryl a church volunteer and the presidentrsquos secretary was advised not to give strands of her hair to a fellow soccer player new students to the university donrsquot want to give you their names. If you donrsquot know my name it means you donrsquot know me and therefore you could c http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18536.html PNG News 7 DemocracyAs you read my news especially this email dear reader please remember that the name Papua New Guinea and the unification of the nation is a colonial construct. I canrsquot get PNGrsquoS interpretation of democracy out of my head. Some contradictions are revealed in a recent documentary about the 2002 elections in Enga a remote province in the highlands. The video is http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18511.html PNG News 6 Impressions of work gardenlsquoOur impressions of human life are picked up one by one by one and remain for most of us loose and disorganized. Northrop Frye Educated Imagination p. 6364I am searching for things that will suddenly coordinate and bring into focus a great many impressions. So far I only scratch the surface of the life in Papua New Guinea PNG. My job for examp http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18509.html PNG News 5 Package tour There are two types of tourists those who go on packages and those who package the tour as they go. Maquerite The tour is packaging me. Last weekend Valia my previous housemate see PNG News 3 and now we are neighbours returned from Port Moresby. She met the lsquowhorsquos whorsquo in PNG media. 807 am She shows up at my door to say we are hik http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18508.html PNG News 4 If you want a story without animals DONrsquoT READ THIS.Brandy in the heat is different than on the Queen Charlottes Islands. The fire it creates in your belly just extends to the outside atmosphere and melts all around you. It is raining lightening and thundering tonight a real treat and one of the neighbourrsquos sick child is crying non stop not a treat at all. You can h http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-18507.html