PNG Life

Here is a video showing a little bit of what our daily life is like here in PNG.

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Mitupela Lainim Lo Tok Pisin*

We are full-time language learners now. We spend as much of our time talking with local people in the trade language (Pidgin) as we can. The rest of our "learning time," we study, listen to our recordings and get ready for the next time we'll talk with someone. We have a number of people who we meet with regularly to learn, but we also just walk around to find anyone willing to listen to our attempts. It's an interesting, fun, challenging, humiliating experience.

*The two of us are learning to speak Pidgin

We are in Papua New Guinea!

It's taken us a few more years than we ever expected, but we are finally in Papua New Guinea. We have settled into our little temporary apartment and are currently trying to adjust to the new clock. I wonder how many mornings we will wake up at 4am before we start to adjust.

Pre-Approved

We have our Visas! So we are cleared for entry into Papua New Guinea. With that checked off the list, we shipped most of our possessions off to meet us in PNG. Unfortunately we won't see any of that stuff until around Christmas regardless of how quickly we get there ourselves.

We are currently at 66% of our support and need to get to 75% to depart. Once we get that we will purchase plane tickets and be off!

Launching

This is a short video with some pertinent facts about Papua New Guinea that provides a quick introduction to what we are doing and why we are doing it.

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