July 1, 2010
After breakfast the morning was spent listening to Peter and Wimai share their life story. They had both attended school at a young age and met working in the same place. They did marry for love, which is not too common in PNG. Many women are bought for a bride price by the groom and his tribe. Often times the woman is bought by a tribe that speaks a different language then her own and has to move far away from her family. Another older man shared as well about all the fighting and showed us a few of the weapons that would be used. They used mostly spears and arrows made from wood, but they were very effective.
In the afternoon we did some language learning and walked to Seatin to play basketball or soccer with the children. I was not able to play, but Emily, Ellen, and I had a group of children gathered around us so we started asking questions of the children and working on some more translation with them.
That evening we were invited to attend a baby dedication. I was not able to go because it had started raining as we were leaving Seatin and never stopped all night. I was very disappointed I could not go because the path would have been too slippery and on top of that it was dark. I really do not like listening to all the things I cannot do. Despite my disappointment the evening was still enjoyable spent with Mary, Tracy, Ellen and Levi. Mary read us a story and Tracy made us Milo, which is a hot chocolate drink. Ellen has a severe allergy to gluten and Tracy did not realize there was a barely ingredient in the chocolate mix that made Ellen very sick for a day. We now joke about the Milo incident.
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