The Anglican Church of PNG Compound in Lae
Mmm. How to give a real picture?
It’s a fairly big property on a corner block of Seventh street & Huon Street (relatively busy-ish streets). Being a city boy, I think in ¼ acre blocks. This compound must have at least 10 quarter acre blocks. Reasonably open place.
Has the parish building (church – seat 200 maybe), a large hall building, 6 or 7 of these 3brhouses + 2 bungalows + a little AIDS educ. office… beautiful views over rainforest long gully then valley into misty mountains, and generally great huge rain-trees all around.
There’s a 24hr guard (one – Simon-Michael in the day, and Mouman on the night shift), kinda nothing gates and a barbed wire fence (waist height) all around elsewise. Bars/grates across all windows/slats/doors etc. Compared to other compounds, this one is an open plot. Normally Aileen & Martin take out a decent helping of dinner around 9-10pm to the night-shift guard (who leaves the plate/bowl back on the balcony in the morning). I’ve added to this with a nightly smoke (my one for the day to date in Lae)
Downstairs from the 3 (small) Br place I live in is the Anglican National Office that I work in, complete with alarm upstairs and downstairs. Inside this upstairs portion, there’s a secondary security door (big iron frame jobby) that locks away the 3 bedrooms separately, and the alarm switch is in there as well.
People are friendly, and almost every night for 2 or 3 hours so far this week there has been the sounds of drums and/or choir wafting across the compound as they prepare for All Souls day church festival on Sunday (I’m getting a crash course in the Anglican lectionary at the moment), and the Ms Milne Bay contest tomorrow (Sat.) night. Nice. Wandered over a few nights and watched the dancing practicing and copped an invite – could be fun.
It’s a fairly big property on a corner block of Seventh street & Huon Street (relatively busy-ish streets). Being a city boy, I think in ¼ acre blocks. This compound must have at least 10 quarter acre blocks. Reasonably open place.
Has the parish building (church – seat 200 maybe), a large hall building, 6 or 7 of these 3brhouses + 2 bungalows + a little AIDS educ. office… beautiful views over rainforest long gully then valley into misty mountains, and generally great huge rain-trees all around.
There’s a 24hr guard (one – Simon-Michael in the day, and Mouman on the night shift), kinda nothing gates and a barbed wire fence (waist height) all around elsewise. Bars/grates across all windows/slats/doors etc. Compared to other compounds, this one is an open plot. Normally Aileen & Martin take out a decent helping of dinner around 9-10pm to the night-shift guard (who leaves the plate/bowl back on the balcony in the morning). I’ve added to this with a nightly smoke (my one for the day to date in Lae)
Downstairs from the 3 (small) Br place I live in is the Anglican National Office that I work in, complete with alarm upstairs and downstairs. Inside this upstairs portion, there’s a secondary security door (big iron frame jobby) that locks away the 3 bedrooms separately, and the alarm switch is in there as well.
People are friendly, and almost every night for 2 or 3 hours so far this week there has been the sounds of drums and/or choir wafting across the compound as they prepare for All Souls day church festival on Sunday (I’m getting a crash course in the Anglican lectionary at the moment), and the Ms Milne Bay contest tomorrow (Sat.) night. Nice. Wandered over a few nights and watched the dancing practicing and copped an invite – could be fun.
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