Port Moresby Conference For the last few days I have been in the capital attending an HIV/AIDS conference for VSO. Very interesting and informative. Met some great people as well. The accommodation was self catering and I shared with two National ladies. Accommodation was spacious and very modern but it would have been nice to have been told it was self catering beforehand especially as there was no supermarket nearby! POM [Port Moresby] is renowned for it's ra...

27 July 2009 Monday, and at long last the three times postponed Inservice at Good Shepherd is happening! As Ken needs to go to the bank I'm on my own to start it off. Due to start at 8am so Ken insists I leave at 7:30am to drive myself there. He will follow in a PMV [public motor vehicle -mini bus]. So I arrive at 7:55am, no one around as I expected! We started at 9:30! After the usual Act of Worship I outlined the task and set them off to do an audit of resou...

Last week's visit to Aiome. Our first visit to Aiome was brilliant! We left home at 6:30am in the Lodge bus to go to the airport. Arrived 10 minutes later, no staff, doors closed and it was raining!! As usual Ken had us there early! We needed to be there for 7am to book in for the flight at 7:30. We duly booked in at about 8am when the staff had all arrived. To book in you and your luggage are weighed so being the only white people there for the flight all watch...

This picture is of our guides showing us the way back to Rempi Village where we stayed our first weekend here in PNG! What at a week it’s been! Got back from Aiome on Friday and it’s been all go since. Now we’re in Malala having arrived an hour or so ago and had to give the place a good clean [we were told that three men had used it last!]So now the floor has been washed, the burnt pan cleaned and I won’t go into the grotty bits! Aiome was good again. A...

Bits and pieces! Every now and again I think "I wonder if I've told you about….." so as I'm waiting for a meeting to begin I'll do just that but in no particular order! Started this and then the old mind went blank! So here goes. The women here all wear what are called meri [woman] dresses. They are very frilly quite often and are worn over a laplap,[sarong] or skirt. They tend to come to below the knee with a frill. Most often they have puff slee...