Kids playing in the wee stream outside my place. Much laughter and screaming.

It has been a pretty good week - more rain, lots of reading and playing ukulele when I'm not at school. Students are doing well and are enjoying learning some Maori songs. Me being here has allowed their normal teacher to go into Port Moresby and try to get the school registered so they receive government help and PNG textbooks. That has been going well which is great. It will be fantastic for them if that all comes off.

Culinary delights of the week:
Learning to make Burupae - a sago and banana soup which is pretty yummy.
Sifora Juice ( Lime juice) - have a tree outside so I get my hunter/gatherer on and squeeze me some sweet juice!
Thai curried beans - thanks to my new skill at husking and grating coconuts I can make my own milk and with the help of the curry powder someone else bought it has made a nice change from eating kumera, banana, sago and rice.

The westerners are few and far between this week - Barb is in Port Moresby, Dr Val and Dr Nell went to the next closest hospital for a week (there are no doctors there so they do 2 weeks here and 1 week there). Just Colin, Grandma, Jennie, Eva and me.

Hope all well for you guys - time is going fast here - only 5 more weeks.