It's all go! On Sunday we went down to the beach and had a meal and swam in theclear, warm sea. The local, naked children were jumping off an overhanging tree into the sea. It was fun watching and tempting to join them. On Monday we started our In Country Orientation (ICO) and after a 3 hour security briefing we went shopping in the market to get unknown food - pit pit and kau kau and then had an outdoor cooking lesson on how to prepare these and other foods....

Well though we're only a week into our adventure, we seem to have met everyone and done everything. Suffice to say that when we have undertaken our in-country orientation which starts tomorrow, we start all over again up in the highlands. On Monday of course we walked straight into an all-day education workshop and surprisingly were able to contribute to the discussions. On Tuesday and Wednesday we visited primary schools in the Madang area and on Thursday and...