As I near the end of my culture and language study and my ability to use and understand the Kovol language keeps increasing I'm able to dive into some deeper areas of the Kovol culture. A big, important area for the work we do is that of gods and spirits.
Our coworker's cat cookie is a kitten-making machine. She's been having 2 to 3 litters a year for as long as we've been here. At 4-6 per litter, it's incredible the number of kittens she's produced and young kittens tumbling around by our houses is the norm. We've finally given in and we've taken one for ourselves. After many days of umming and aahing, we finally said why not? The first step was to gather all 4 surviving kittens (2 went... on holiday with a village dog) and look up Google images of how to tell males and females apart. We were sure we wanted a male kitten so we don't end up doubling the flow of kittens around here!
Wednesday and Thursday's flights went without a hitch meaning we moved all the groceries both our family and the Stous family for the next months came in. A day later our family made it in. A crowd of Kovol friends of course greeted us and we were able to let them know how glad we were to be back.
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Lynette Cottam · 30/07/2020 at 11:12 am
I am SO glad that you have a twin tub washing machine. We had a Hitachi twin tub which lasted half of out time in PNG and then we got another Hitachi for the second half of our time. In 2012 Hitachi stopped making twin tubs in Australia. We were SO disappointed because we had been recommending them to all the new missionaries.
What brand is yours?
I am glad that you have now finished setting up your home.
Loving greetings to the three of you,
Lynette
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