PNG photos - odd bits

This is the last set of PNG photos I will be posting - enjoy! =)

Small boy, big knife


Big boy, small knife (It's Puxi!)




Smile!


Wanna drive across this bridge?



Sit back and relax in the cow recliner!

Stephen playing machette ping-pong!


Bee on a stick

Goroka airport security

PNG photos - animals

PNG photos - tribal visit

On our last weekend in PNG, we made two day trips to a people group that is following in the ways of Jesus Christ. It was a pleasure to spend some time with these believers and take part in their church service on Sunday morning. They have a desire to bring the good news of Christ to other people belonging to their people group. They even made a direct appeal to us that we would come back to PNG. On the Saturday, the highlight was another mumu, and on the Sunday, the highlight was the church service. They sang songs both in Pidgin English and in their native language. There was a striking difference in the way they sang their own songs in their own language.

Peeling the kaukau for the mumu

A chicken loses its head

An indoor mumu!

Lots of smoke!

Scraping out the coconuts

Sunday morning church service (front)

Church service (back)

PNG photos - sikmun

One day, we went to visit the village, and there were two dead cows lying on their back with their feet sticking up in the air and being taken apart by the men of the village. It was in preparation for another mumu on the occasion of three girls coming of age, i.e. old enough to be married. The ceremony is called "sikmun". It was to take place on the next day and the girls would be wearing traditional dress. All of us students were invited to attend the ceremony and have some of the mumu...

Men preparing the cow meat for the mumu
The mumu ground oven

Unloading more food for the mumu

On the day of the mumu: the roasted pig is brought onto the scene

Kaukau na pik

The three girls at the sikmun




Students enjoy some of the mumu

PNG photos - village life

There are three little villages close to the campus. In the afternoons, we would often take the opportunity to visit the villages and talk with the people there and play with the kids. The people in the villages were very friendly and always happy to see us. Thankfully, many of them also spoke some English, so we weren't totally dependent on our limited knowledge of Pidgin English!

Village life

Great photo that I can't take credit for because someone else on our team took it
(probably Kristen - nice shot!)

PNG Bible Church in one of the villages

Another church further away out in the bush

Stem shows us his slingshot skills

Sister and brother (I think)

Play merion - a game we learned from the kids

The local school

Classroom

The 10 commandments hanging in the classroom

Grade 6 covenant

Down by the riverside

The kids loved having their picture taken...

...here in front of an election poster...

...and they really liked seeing their picture on the digital camara!

Or on the camcorder!

Photo from our last visit to the villages