NTM

Some of you must be wondering…what do we do all day?  Here is what a typical day looks like for me (Wayne)…

6:30am Get up…make coffee…quiet time
7:30-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-9:00 Prep for language session.  Prepping includes going over some new vocabulary, practices some learned phrases
9:00-12:30 Live language session.  This is where I meet with people, ask them about pidgin, culture and establish relationship.
12:30-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-2:00 Time for “malolo”…or time for rest
2:00-4:00 Processing language data from notebook and tape recorder.  Working on vocabulary and grammar.  Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, we meet with our orientation staff to go over different topics in tribal church planting.
4:00-5:00 Going to the neighborhood market…hang in the neighborhood
5:00-8:30pm Dinner, family time, putting Abby and Kala to sleep
8:30-10:00 More pidgin review, blogging, email correspondences
10:30 zzzzzzzzz

Gail’s day is a little different since she needs to homeschool the kids in the mornings.  Sometimes she goes to her language session early in the morning for an hour or two.  On Sundays, we alternate between a PNG national church and HQ church here.

Today also marks the 2-month anniversary here in PNG.  Thank you guys for all your prayers.  We’ll be going into the bush soon…more updates on that later.  Here are some more pics…

This is what we wake up to everyday…

There are two types of “popo” (papaya) here…yellow and red.  In the last two months, I probably ate 18 yellow popos and 2 red ones.  Guess which one tastes a lot better?  Yup…red popo.  I finally found a red in the market last week.  I left it on the counter and guess what happened next morning?  Half of it was chewed up by a rat!!! (hmmm…I still ate the other half…hey, it’s a red popo!)  This is when we declared war and put out a trap.  We met our friend again the next morning…

Our neighbor’s pet…a kapul (cuscus).  The people here told me it is “very sweet”…and they did not mean its temperament!

Abby lost her first tooth today!

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