Christian Revivals, BBQ’s, Da Vanda and all sorts...
Just Diarising again...
Reading for the week: Zadok & re-reading of “A Burnt-Out Case”. Exxxxcellent book. ppls – it’s on my shelf and finished if you want it.
Music for the week: Compliments of high-quality Gorokan AVI mates I have another 5GB+ of classic tunes to play with. Highlights include, but not limited to, RobD-Club to Death; Basement Jaxx; some Barry White; INXS; MoS (Hard NRG – black cover I bought ages ago and had stolen from car); Counting crows; more Daft Punk. Yay!
Sunday – PMV ride back from Goroka Coffee festival… then once back had a guy from our largest funding body (bar Ausaid) staying o/night with me for a few nights.
Monday – Dinner & chats with this same very nice guy from Oz. We cooked kau kau in coconut milk with highlands kumu (anyone in PNG know it’s English name?) + tuna steaks and talked work till late.
Tuesday – Yoti as usual. Pan fried Red Emperor with a side of SP.
Wednesday – Talked into drinks with a mate from 4pm with some of his business partners. Progressed into many drinks followed by 3-course dinner at the most expensive place in Lae with his boss and an Ausaid procurement/shipping guy. Big, big night.
Thursday – BBQ at a mate’s place. Steak & mash. Mmmm… red meat.
Friday – Worked late then a little escapism with WC3 (campaign on hard) & Scorched Earth (remember that one Anf?!?)
Saturday – made up numbers for a friend of a friend on a table for the “Christian Revival Centre’s” fundraising dinner (K100 per head which I didn’t pay). Actually was a well run dinner (200+ people). The new church they’re building will seat 2000, and will have accommodation and all sorts of things there. Must ring the head-pastor and ask what HIV things they’ve got going… or whether they need/want help. I have to look up on the web just what the CRC is all about generally… but nice crowd.
Heh – a good week of extra-curricula’s. It’s a tough volunteer life at the moment!
However interspersed with yet another overbearingly tricky week at work. Darn. Had a large… legal thing that’s been taking up all my time work-wise (but not something you’d blog about) which was decided against us last week – means more work and some other things. Still wrestling with this one and staff shortages, though lots of our partners overseas have been very good at helping in our recent recruitment drive.
The new AVI in-country manager is taking us out for dinner on Sunday evening – more chance to talk about the whole staff shortage thing then…
Heh – and finally tonight Muandu (night time sec. guard) is liking my guitar playing. Whenever I play 12-bar-blues he says it’s like how they play in Chimbu. Perhaps it’s the New Orleans of PNG up there? :-)
Reading for the week: Zadok & re-reading of “A Burnt-Out Case”. Exxxxcellent book. ppls – it’s on my shelf and finished if you want it.
Music for the week: Compliments of high-quality Gorokan AVI mates I have another 5GB+ of classic tunes to play with. Highlights include, but not limited to, RobD-Club to Death; Basement Jaxx; some Barry White; INXS; MoS (Hard NRG – black cover I bought ages ago and had stolen from car); Counting crows; more Daft Punk. Yay!
Sunday – PMV ride back from Goroka Coffee festival… then once back had a guy from our largest funding body (bar Ausaid) staying o/night with me for a few nights.
Monday – Dinner & chats with this same very nice guy from Oz. We cooked kau kau in coconut milk with highlands kumu (anyone in PNG know it’s English name?) + tuna steaks and talked work till late.
Tuesday – Yoti as usual. Pan fried Red Emperor with a side of SP.
Wednesday – Talked into drinks with a mate from 4pm with some of his business partners. Progressed into many drinks followed by 3-course dinner at the most expensive place in Lae with his boss and an Ausaid procurement/shipping guy. Big, big night.
Thursday – BBQ at a mate’s place. Steak & mash. Mmmm… red meat.
Friday – Worked late then a little escapism with WC3 (campaign on hard) & Scorched Earth (remember that one Anf?!?)
Saturday – made up numbers for a friend of a friend on a table for the “Christian Revival Centre’s” fundraising dinner (K100 per head which I didn’t pay). Actually was a well run dinner (200+ people). The new church they’re building will seat 2000, and will have accommodation and all sorts of things there. Must ring the head-pastor and ask what HIV things they’ve got going… or whether they need/want help. I have to look up on the web just what the CRC is all about generally… but nice crowd.
Heh – a good week of extra-curricula’s. It’s a tough volunteer life at the moment!
However interspersed with yet another overbearingly tricky week at work. Darn. Had a large… legal thing that’s been taking up all my time work-wise (but not something you’d blog about) which was decided against us last week – means more work and some other things. Still wrestling with this one and staff shortages, though lots of our partners overseas have been very good at helping in our recent recruitment drive.
The new AVI in-country manager is taking us out for dinner on Sunday evening – more chance to talk about the whole staff shortage thing then…
Heh – and finally tonight Muandu (night time sec. guard) is liking my guitar playing. Whenever I play 12-bar-blues he says it’s like how they play in Chimbu. Perhaps it’s the New Orleans of PNG up there? :-)
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