Quality Hotel Gateway Port Moresby

... place where I was staying. We took a PMV (Public Motor Vehicle), which is the best way to get around and mix with people. We were last to get on a bus which was already packed to the rafters so it was probably a couple of miles further down the road before I could technically claim to have been inside the bus. The golden rule in Port Moresby is to stick to certain areas during the day and don't go anywhere at night but ...

... 8230; but there’s been a bit of trouble there recently because of a mining operation. The Chinese mining company brought in many workers from the China mainland to work in the mines … and used them for all jobs, including, for example, sweeping up the floors, which locals can do. The Australian/European mining companies usually just bring in ex-pats as engineers, filling jobs where they can’t find locals to do the work. But the Chinese ...

... English. Such like, “Yu ken stretim Rum nau,” and “Yu no ken kam insait” for “Please clean room” and “Do not disturb.” Must collect more. (Like the one on the airport that begins, “No gat kondom” and says something like “Maski long wip.”

Had the dinner buffet (included with our rooms and no reason to leave the compound). The food was fine – no great shakes but edible. Paul tried the local ...

... just the Pacific Ocean - i assume. Our meal was half western and half traditional japanese - choice between chicken and beef. Amba and i both chose chicken. It was like fried chicken - but tasted weird - with rice, soba noodles, dinner roll and a TIM TAM!! (yummmmmm!!) Certainly filled up on that. I tried to watch as many movies as possible to make the time go quicker. first i played Solitaire on my own personal screen in an attempt to distract ...

... s - le Shady bar : là, autre ambiance, on était les seuls blancs. Il y avait un groupe de papous qui jouaient du rock. Super ambiance, les gens cools, viennent discuter avec toi. Le papou doit montrer qu'il est aisé alors les gars commandent dix bocs de bière pour qu'il y en ai partout sur la table même si la bière va forcement devenir chaude et qu'ils vont certainement pas tout boire. Mais ca montre qu'ils ont les moyens. Seul, j'y serais certainement ...

... a solid, hard uphill walk to Ioribaiwa Ridge. Here we met up with Bill James (author of The Kokoda Track Field Guide) who was going the same way as us with a group who were planning on staying at the guest house at Ua-Ule Creek also. After saying our good-byes, Wayne took some of us to have a look at a network of trenches used by the Japanese to defend the ridge. The next section had a number of slow, steep downhill sections ...

... Rachel's hand and she about had a stroke! Well, we didn't find the big one, so Logan went back upstairs and we were doing a few things before we went to bed. Bethany walked over towards the bunk bed and there was another BIG roach on Rachel's clothes! So Bethany decided to "sacrifice herself" and kill it. She sprayed Rachel's clothes in the process of killing the bug and then it too disappeared! She drug the clothes outside and began searching for the bug. She ...

... will get to the guy and get to us! Tuesday was the beginning of two long days! We were supposed to have a team meeting, but all the husbands were busy; so it was just Diane and Loopie and all of us interns. In the middle of the meeting Baylee got sick several times. Well, unfortunately that was just the beginning. Bethany got sick that afternoon, Tate got sick that afternoon, Rachel got sick that night and Lesley left for Port Moresby for a seminar he was supposed to give ...

... needed a new roof, so we were volunteered to go help! We went far out from Alotau, into an area filled with sago planted by the government, and Wesley chopped down two of the trees. He chopped the.leaves.limbs.I'm not sure what to call them, but he chopped off the big fronds.that's a good word yes?...and we all had knives to hack the leaves off. After we had the leaves all hacked off, we stacked them and Wesley tied them into bundles to ...

... ja, zdej je smesno, takrat NI BILO! No, tko pol cez ene pol ure pride luknjo pogledat stevard. Pol se cez ene 5 minut pred luknjo pogledat tretji stevard. Zacenja me skrbet -> js BI pristala na PNG ne v morju :) No, po najboljsi hrani na letalu - odlicno zgledajoci, sam mene je blo prevec strah, da bi jedla in po se ene par turbulencah smo pred sabo zagledali zeleno pokrajino in lustkan zalivcek - ja, glavno mesto, "luknja sveta" sodec po Avstralskih medijih in definitivno ...