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Today we went to our “wasfamili”’s house to eat dinner. We brought some rice and stew and banana bread and they had veggies from their garden. Sorry I couldn’t get any pictures of their house. It was night and Its kind of awkward to ask to take pictures of someone’s house and village if its only the second time you met them. Next week we are staying overnight, so hopefully I will get a tour of the village and be able to take some pictures :D. Anyways, it was fun, they were much more relaxed in their house and more talkative, they told us stories of World War 2 (which is like the biggest thing to ever happen to PNG, so everyone remembers it. Actually the kids got to go on a field trip and see an old WW2 plane crash site in the bush!). We taught them how to play old maid (we called it lapun meri) and they loved it! It was fun :D

The picture above is NOT their house! It’s a small rest room type place on campus that is nice and cool during the day. But its just to show you how their houses are made. The walls are these beautiful reeds they strip from coconut branches and weave together. The roof is made of sage leaves (another find of palm), sewn together and layered. The floor is either more reeds or bamboo. Our “wasfamili” had just built theirs (meaning for the last 6 months). And they have a veranda and wrap around porch, its all on stilts for the pig house underneath. We didn’t go inside but there are at least 2 rooms. It was amazing! :D