Stanleys have been gone for over 2 weeks now. Even though we still have the Hubers, the homeschool-helper couple, with us, it became much quieter. Too quiet… You could feel the loneliness the first 2 days. Hardly a person was to be seen. Louis and Timon kept coming back and Read more…
Our journey went pretty smoothly for Papua New Guinea. We arrived early at Goroka airport for our 10 am flight. Our children were bursting with excitement to get on the “big plane”. Unfortunately, Air Niugini had cancelled the afternoon flight to Port Moresby the day before after checking in everyone’s bags. All the passengers who had a flight the day before received priority, and there was no space for a family of 5. “Come back this afternoon”, we were told.
With us heading out for our home assignment, you may think this post is about the different world we’re entering into, returning to Europe, but no, it’s not that. This is about how we feel about entering a different world while still here in Papua New Guinea! Goroka is so very different from Kovol.
Currently there is tension between Kokoma and Eririm. Kokoma is the village we live in and Eririm is a village that is a 3-hour hike away. They are both Kovol villages and people from Eririm come over from time to time to see us and play soccer.
As we prepare to leave Kovol next week to visit family back in Europe we took a moment to think back over the last 3 years we have spent here.