4.30

This is a picture of a kid holding a snake.  Most people here in Papua New Guinea are terrified of snakes.  My Waspapa will run away if he even sees a picture of one on our camera!  But this kid wasn't afraid.  He would take his pet snake out to the road and scare all the kids walking to school early in the morning, or chase people in our village with it.  It was fun.  He tried to scare me with it but I took it and put it around my neck and my Waspapa freaked out.  Its not a poisonous snake, and it doesn't bite.  I don't know what kind it is.

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4.29

First day back from the village and we had lots of story time. We were only allowed to tell one story from our time because if not it would take too much time. I told the story of how my Waspapa didn’t understand the concept of dessert and I baked at least 20 cakes in 5 weeks. If I go to the village again to work on a language team, I am NOT baking that much. You have no idea how much time it takes to bake a cake over a fire one by one and make enough for a village to have even one piece.

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4.28

Came back to POC today. It was hard leaving our village family. They were so nice and looked after us so great. I cried when I left and so did our wasfemili. Our Waspapa has already called us 4 times today to tell us he almost broke his phone in a crying rage when he got our text that we were back in POC, or to tell us he was crying looking at our house. Its sad :( Life in the village is so monotonous and then they suddenly get these two Americans to look after for 5 weeks. We literally became their children to them and then we have to leave. :(

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4.27

This is our last day in the village. We gave our wasfemili their gifts and they were really excited about them. Our Waspapa didn’t want anything but my Tok Pisin Bible because he didn’t have one. We gave the kids a soccer ball and lots of toys, a kids Bible and comic books, we gave them our mattresses and our pot oven too. I also left all my clothes for them (except the ones Im wearing out AHAHAHA! Although I guess I could wear my grass skirt and bilum!) They’ve given us so many bilums and singsing decorations too. I have a clay pot that they usually give as part of a bride price and they killed a pig in our honor. Im going to be sad to leave them. Our family is already crying thinking about us leaving :(

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