One of the things I told my family before deciding to volunteer on the other side of the world was that if they ever needed me I would come home. James Taylor sang it best, Just call out my name and you know where ever I am I’ll come running to see you again.
I'll be going home on a one month leave and will return to PNG the first week in August.
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Life in Papua New Guinea
Welcome!
This is my attempt to share my exeriences working as a VSO volunteer in Papua New Guinea. Allow yourself to see another perspective as you read, laugh, and learn about development in PNG.
Pictures are Worth a Thousand Words
PNG Flag
Location of PNG
Hint: In RED, above Australia
Map of PNG
Want to know more? Check out these links...
Facts and Figures
Official Name: Independent State of Papua New Guinea
Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy; National Parliament with 109 Members
Chief of State: British Monarch represented by a Governor-General
Head of Government: Prime Minister
Capital: Port Moresby
Official Language: English
Official Religion: None, but Christianity predominates (97% of the Country's population is Christian
Monetary Unit: 1 Kina (K) = 100 toea (t) -- K1 is approximately $US0.40
Population: Approx. 5.3 million - with population density of 10. 8/km2
Urban/rural Population: Urban 17.6; Rural 83.4%
Life expectancy at birth: Male 54 years; Female 56 years
Sex distribution:: Male 52.73%; Female 47.27%
Language: 850 indigenous languages
Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy; National Parliament with 109 Members
Chief of State: British Monarch represented by a Governor-General
Head of Government: Prime Minister
Capital: Port Moresby
Official Language: English
Official Religion: None, but Christianity predominates (97% of the Country's population is Christian
Monetary Unit: 1 Kina (K) = 100 toea (t) -- K1 is approximately $US0.40
Population: Approx. 5.3 million - with population density of 10. 8/km2
Urban/rural Population: Urban 17.6; Rural 83.4%
Life expectancy at birth: Male 54 years; Female 56 years
Sex distribution:: Male 52.73%; Female 47.27%
Language: 850 indigenous languages
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Books Recently Read
- Throwim Way Leg, Tim Flannery
- The Other Boylen Girl
- Half of a Yellow Sun
- Pillars of the Earth
- Dreams of My Father, Barack Obama
- Three Cups of Tea
- The Red Tent, Anita Diamant
- 1984, George Orwell
- Call of the Wild, Jack London
About Me
In case you were wondering....
The contents of this blog are mine personally and do not reflect any position of VSO Canada.
As to when I shall return, it will not be soon. I enjoy the vagrant life I lead. I prefer the saddle to the street car, the star sprinkled sky to a roof, the obscure and difficult trail leading into the unknown to any paved highway, the deep peace of the wild to the discontent bared by cities. Do you blame me for going? Going where I feel that I belong? Exploring is a resistless fascination for me. I will never stop wandering. Always, I want to live more intensely and richly.
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