How to plant a Peanut garden
In Spring last year we started talking about planting a peanut garden with our Kovol friends.
Raft building
Reconciliation
Affirmation
Farewell
Think ahead.
Movement from one place to another is very quick. It will take less than 12 hours to go from the UK to the Netherlands, but transition is the process of emotionally arriving – and that can take longer.
Whatever we’re gaining by moving, we’re also leaving something behind, and there’s grief in losing it. We want to try to work through that grief, and not just deny it or bury it for it to cause problems later.
Developing Leadership through literacy
NTM PNG keeps producing nice encouraging videos of teams several years ahead of us. These are the things we’re looking forward to in Kovol!
The purge
Right now we’re in what I’ve come to think of as the purge, the getting rid of phase. We don’t have a definite luggage allowance for our intended flight to PNG yet, but from our early investigation of routes, it looks like it will be 3x 25kg suitcases and hand luggage.