21/2/2009: Day 10, Kapuna Hospital
Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We had the 48th graduation ceremony for the community health worker trainees today. I didn’t realize that the school had been going for so long, but they have – started in the 1950s, they’ve had the titles of the graduates change from nursing assistants to ...
19/2/2009: Day 8, Kapuna Hospital
Friday, February 27th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »This whole week Ruth and I have been giving keyboard lessons to some of the staff and their children. They’ve actually been getting recorder lessons from Dr. Valerie (who’s teaching herself to play recorder and keyboard!) and are pretty good! Ruth and I started ...
17/2/2009: Day 6, Kapuna Hospital
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We’ve sort of settled into a makeshift routine, with Ruth taking the adult ward and me taking the children’s ward, and everything else taken by at least someone. It gives us some days where we can take our time to wake up in the ...
15/2/2009: Day 4, Kapuna Hospital
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »First Sunday at Kapuna, and more glimpses into God’s family which has taken root here. Service starts between 9 and 930 am, in typical PNG style (and also Malaysian, I must add) with people trickling in at any time they want. The musicians, 3 guitarists ...
14/2/2009: Day 3, Kapuna Hospital
Monday, February 23rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »We’re now going to macro mode and take a closer look at an emergency that took place today. It was probably the hottest day so far, the temperature rising fast and early, and the wind hardly picking up in the morning. Thankfully there was only ...
12/2/2009: Day 1, Kapuna Hospital
Monday, February 16th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »First whole day in Kapuna. Talking with Ruth, we realize that this is a place of relativism – relative cleanliness, relative health, relative heat/coolness; everything is just about okay, and they’re okay with that, especially since there's nothing much that can be done about it ...
The journey in…
Monday, February 9th, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »So I'm here in Port Moresby, sitting in the little corner of Mapang Guesthouse where the computer is, while warm air condenses around me. To get here, I've been in a plane from London-KL-Kch-KL-Gold Coast, bus to Brisbane, then another ...
Hello world!
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Welcome to Inmedblogs.us. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!