Another great experience. The Tokaut Aids theatre group did a performance in the VSO office so you can actually see where we work when in the office. The group, 2 ladies and 4 men are brilliant and we've enjoyed having them around the hotel just to chat to. Then in the afternoon they did the performance in our local school and it was great. Have to say it took some organising but that's another story! Please do look at the pictures. I've tried not to send too m...

Last Friday we had really high winds and the thatched roof off the bar area just took off! Was a bit scarey actually and the damage was quite extensive. This is the time of really high winds and so we've seen some very rough seas in our little cove. The "breeze" is quite refreshing in the evenings!!

We understand that some of you have heard about the unrest within PNG. There have been a number of incidents but here in Madang they were quite minor. The market was closed for a week but has now re-opened. We were walking by the market on the Saturday when things were tense and saw lots of people running and so we quickened our pace and got on a PMV [mini bus] and stayed home. A number of shops belonging to Asians, mainly Chines had been looted and people were ...

Lyn had been invited to open a training session in a village about 90 minutes from Madang. As Roger her husband was a little concerned about leaving her on her own I volunteered to accompany her. because of the unrest it was decided that we'd all stay together and go to all the schools after this opening. On arrival discovered that Lyn had left the papers behind and so Ken and Roger returned to get them Unfortunately they arrived just as the evnt finished so they...

Yesterday was our third drama session at Good Shepherd School. Fiona, my colleague is out of town and so she gave instructions to Margaret, the teacher and myself as to what she wanted the students to do. Well I've never taught Drama, never did at school either so did a bit more planning than I'd normally do! Third week though and I was expecting that the numbers would drop but no we even got a few new ones! It went really well. Told the students a bit about Fi...