Strike a pose

Greek Refresher Course

Terrible photo, wonderful people. Rene, who taught the recent Greek Refresher workshop, and his wife Lydia came for dinner.

It all gets a bit much for our dear friend on the left, whose first language is Korean. Then came English, Indonesian, with Papuan Malay thrown in, then the Papuan language he is working with, and now New Testament Greek!! Everyone say Aaarrrggghhh!!
Phil heads off to the workshop with the wall charts of Greek paradigms he wrote up the night before.

Raising leaders for Papua

Soren's school, Sekolah Papua Harapan (could be translated 'High Hopes for Papua' School), turned 3 last week, and held a talent show and other fun things to celebrate. Its motto is 'Character Attitudes Skills Habits' and its goal is to raise leaders of integrity for Papua. The approach is positive and nurturing and we're thankful Soren is happily doing TK-B there this year, which is the equivalent of kindergarten or prep in Australia. I am doing some English numeracy and literacy with him at home.

Soren's class presented a number about a little lamb (Soren took this role very seriously!) who gets separated from the flock..

..and is then brought back to safety by the shepherd (his wonderful teacher Ibu Guru Mici).

The other TK-B class did a fashion parade, and each child had a chance to show their moves. Very cool.

Autumn

Ready for bed.

Visitors from PNG

These are our neighbours to our immediate left.

The boys and I heard some drumming and singing coming from their front yard one afternoon so we popped over to see what was going on.


Turns out there were a number of people from PNG visiting Sentani for our church demonination's Synod. A group of them were being hosted by our neighbours and were running through some of the songs they were performing as part of the celebrations.

There are many similarities between Papuan and Papua New Guinean culture, and it all felt and sounded very familiar, apart from the strangeness of some of them speaking to me in English!

Babies

Reuben has mastered the 'football hold' position for feeding his precious 'baby'.

Bikes

After some intensive training sessions, Soren and Reuben are now both free of training wheels!

Haircut

This man is not my husband; I deny everything.