What to write? There’s so many directions I could go, review
the flying here, talk about hitting the wall of tiredness and bouncing back
this week, write about amazing friends here encouraging me, friends at home who
have given me encouragement upon encouragement with their beautiful letters,
what about my students?
How about some photos:
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Two days before I left the US, my cat had kittens, and we
all know the internet was created for photos of cats. So I had to post this. I’ve been informed
they are doing well and now open their eyes.
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Patric, Dad and Mom saying the last good-bye in San
Francisco. See how I’m the excited one and everyone else appears to be sad. That’s because
they don’t get to fly to and live in gorgeous Papua New Guinea. |
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My first greeting in Papua New Guinea, Moesly pointing to
God. He shuttled me from the international terminal to the Mission Aviation
Fellowship Hanger just down the street. Praise God, He truly gave me a most
peaceful smooth, and safe journey. Thank you for your prayers and
encouragement! |
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My last flight. There were enough seats for 9, including the
pilot, who told us this is a non-smoking flight and pointed out where the fire
extinguishers were. Brandy took this photo. She’s been a good friend to me. |
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View of Port Moresby in-flight |
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Monday, the 25 of February: My first birthday in Papua New
Guinea. Thanks to Laura for making cupcakes to share with our class. My
roommate, Donna, gave me a bilum, a woven bag; a co-teacher, Laurie, had me over for Birthday dinner Tuesday night;
and then this week they slipped in my birthday with the March-teacher Birthdays at school. I’m thankful for
all the Birthday love. |
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My first greeting upon entering our grade 3 classroom. These
kids are what it’s all about. I love them!
I’ve been teaching them in-between orientation classes and
tours of the centre and Kainantu. Beginning term 4, the 10th of April, I’ll be
their full-time devoted teacher.
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Next week is the last week of term 3 and then all SIL-members
have a week-long biennial branch conference, which includes me, everyone who
lives on-centre, and several dozen other missionaries, translators, and support
staff who are flying in. It has been busy on-centre getting ready for
conference.
I even got another roommate who
flew-in in time for conference.
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I arrived just in time to instruct Volcano building and
erupting! We made paper, can, and tubing volcano apparatuses on Monday, and then
on Wednesday we poured red vinegar over baking soda and look at the reaction…not
of the volcano, of the students: Smiles and yelps and much excitement! |
It’s been a great week overall. Much less adjusting and a
lot more teaching and living. In Social Studies we’ve been discovering Sweden,
and in Math we’ve been doing our best to tell time. Friday night I ate a burger
and chips (fries) at the teen centre with some of “The Crowd” (singles group) After
that we played “hand and foot,” a 6-deck card game. I’m grateful to God for
good company and friends.
Today I’m going to play on an improvised water slide (a
piece of heavy plastic laid on a steep hill) and then I’m going to a farewell
for two of “The Crowd” who are going on furlough. I’m glad it’s just that…they’re
not going “gone finish” (Pisin for retiring or not returning).
I hope you are well. I pray for you and thank God for you! Be on the look-out for a newsletter, likely to
highlight the Huon Gulf language cluster, before the end of March.
Absolutely love the format of this post! I laughed at several of your comments on the pics and my heart was a little sad for your parents and Patric having to say good-bye. Your students are precious and adorable! I'm so excited for you!
ReplyDeleteThanks Miss Lee, I like the format too! Patric and parents seem to be doing just fine without me, we've been keeping up. You're right, our students are precious and adorable! Thanks for being part of the ministry here in PNG!
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