Doug and Kara Shaylor Just another weblog 
I thought I’d write you all to say hi and let you know how we are doing. We all arrived safely to the Interface Campus. It’s amazing here! The view is I truly think the most beautiful I have ever seen. It’s like Paradise!
The team is fun and we are enjoying getting to know them. It’s been neat meeting Emerson and Miriam finally – he’s the coordinator here. Classes have begun and it’s neat for us to be able to sit in them. We just love our little roundhouse – I’m so thankful we have our own bathroom!
We have some cool news – it looks like we are going to go to the Yagaria tribe next Sunday!!! Not the whole group, but the three guys that are here making a video of Interface, and Doug and I. We are so pumped! This is the tribe that Carol Gutwein/Kaptain worked in and will be presenting the revised NT to this August. We were telling Emerson how we’re sort of related to Carol, and that we are supported by her home church. He and his wife were saying that the tribe is going to LOVE that we are sort of related! I know the last group that was here went there and it was a highlight for them. We’re so glad it looks like we’ll be able to go!
I thought I’d tell you a funny story. We had to change into skirts in Singapore so that when we landed in PNG we would be in them. I put one in my carryon which I changed into in Singapore. When Doug and I got on the plane we were sort of rushing and trying to sit down fast (you know how that goes!). I felt all twisted and tried to fix my skirt. Much later I got up to go to the bathroom. As I was walking back, I put my hand on the back of my skirt so it wouldn’t swish in anyone’s face. Well, much to my shagrin, I felt my slip!!!☺ As I groped myself to see what was wrong, I realized that I had a huge rip in my skirt – like about a foot and half long!!! I sat down and when Doug woke up, I told him my problem. I had no other skirt to change into. He said he had tape and would tape it for me. So when the plane landed, Doug got the tape out knelt down, and was up my skirt taping my big rip! We were totally surrounded by the team and they were watching us cracking up! I told them what he was doing – they thought it was hilarious! Doug was able to make it look like new and everything worked fine!
Then when we finally got to Interface, we realized NONE of our luggage had made it – which meant I had to wear my taped skirt for another day! Our luggage did make it in the next afternoon, so today when we got ready we were fully equipped with razors, toothbrushes, hair products, makeup…and non-taped clothes!
Thanks for your prayers. Check out the photo album we posted on our photo page of our trip so far!
