PNG News #3 - There is no place like home "I love Canada…..It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos." Martel, Yann. Life of Pi p.6 " Don’t we say, There’s no place like home." p.17 Yesterday’s induction the Vice President, Administration included a briefing on security. Benjamin N. told Evangelia P. (an academic from Crete and my fellow VSO volunteer/temporary housemate) and me about the two settlements that surround the campus. On the north end of [View Full Entry]

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NEWS FROM PNG #2 - First village encounter. Last weekend's visit to Rempi village, part of our in-country training, was extraordinary. I mean really extra ordinary, or in Pisin "gutpela tru". Sleeping underneath a mosquito net directly on the floor - PNG fashion. This was on the porch of a bamboo hut on stilts overlooking the ocean, which was carpeted by sharp coral. Eating freshly caught & BBQ'd parrot fish with my hands. Four young men, out of our group of fourteen, netted the fish by swimming in tandem with the net. Village men and boys climbed coconut trees after fashioning [View Full Entry]

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NEWS FROM PNG #1- From concept to reality. I never sent this first email to my friends and family. My son was one of the thirty-six recipients of my series of emails from Papua New Guinea and I was not sure I wanted to share my sexual fantasies with him. I began the habit with email number two and continued on through my sixteen months. Is this really my birthday? I am 17 hours ahead. This is an adventure. The unknown. One more plane ride. The weariness hits me with the humidity. I am sitting beside Sean, an Englishman who is [View Full Entry]

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