I promised pictures. Well, I found two good ones of our private physiotherapy symposium. This is Remco (he is the head of department at the moment for the physio department at the DWU) opening the symposium for us in one of the physiotherapy classrooms. The public. Unfortunately I took the picture just after a break, [...]
I lost my bankcard. Or somebody stole it I should say. Somehow between yesterday afternoon and this morning somebody took my card and went to the ATM to withdraw money. I have no clue as to how somebody got the number. I never told anybody nor did I write it anywhere and I’m always very [...]
I want to share some pictures with you. First of all I’ll show you some pictures of my kickboxing team. I’m training for such a long time and I haven’t posted any pictures of them yet. So from left to right my trainer (Joseph), a trainer from Madang who had to flee because someone was [...]
People in PNG cannot accept stability it seems. Stability is something to be shunned. Again I can say that my weekend and the first day after the weekend were not what you would call uneventful. These three days happiness and sadness were fighting for supremacy. On Friday Amlyn came to visit me. He comes from [...]
I’ve been in Madang for four days now. The library is open so I’m going to make use of the fast connection it has. So why did I go to Madang you might ask. I haven’t been clear on that. Today was the big day. I got tested for HIV/AIDS after my incident at the [...]
I’m very proud of myself. Where other people with my reputation to get into trouble get into the national newspaper if they are wanted, I got into this newspaper in positive way. Remember in one of my last posts that I told you that there was a reporter from the Post courier during the open [...]
I’m going to tell you about some of the things I’m doing at the moment. It’s not going to be a beautiful story. You cannot imagine how much fun it is to write a story to you on my own laptop. Yes, the program manager I had until the end of February left me with [...]
This week must have been the most annoying week I have had. It started of last weekend when I spoke to Andrian. Andrian is a Kenian VSO volunteer in the highlands who setup this project that educated bank tellers. Lot of people in PNG don’t have access to banks. This prevents them from saving into [...]
So much for the promise Jo made. I am dragging my knuckles over the floor right now. On Friday I had my first sparring experience at training. I have to say that when you’re in the middle of a ring of people sitting on the floor and another 50 or so shouting around the ring [...]
Well, well, well. The power, THE POWER!! The power to post whatever one likes on another’s blog. Rather an intoxicating thought! It is indeed a privilege. And one that I, of course, will do my utmost not to abuse. So, as Sjoerd said, I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Joanna McErvale and [...]