Sunday, June 7, 2009

Hey everyone!

I'm sitting here at a Pioneer Bible Translators (PBT) station in Madang, Papua New Guinea. SO much has happened in the last 5 days that I won't be able to include everything, but I'll try to cover as much as I can.

First of all, we will not have internet access out in the bush, but we can email via radio so I'll be emailing future posts to my family and they will post them. But I will not be able to see comments or anything like that. If you want to contact me, you'll have to email me at the Pryor's email address and put like "For Charlie" in the subject line so they know it's for me. Their address is: oipng@crmf.org.pg

Okay. Lea and I have decided that traveling is not very hard, but it can be stressful. Our flight from LA to Brisbane, Australia boarded on time but then sat at the gate for 3 hours because the pa system in one of the cabins was not working. So we sat there, in LA, for 3 stinking hours just waiting to leave. 14 hrs later, we arrived in Australia only to wait another 30 minutes on the plane because of a swine flu scare. Some dufus was feeling sick so they came on and quarantined and tested him.

Our bags didn't make the connection from Bisbane to Port Moresby, so we had to do without changing clothes for 3 days. Sorta gross. But we finally got them back yesterday so it's all good.

We leave for the bush tomorrow so we're packing up stuff and weighing it to put on the plane.

The Pryor family is great! Jesse is hilarious - a dry sense of humor and he's a lot like my brother and college roommate in terms of temperment/personality. Karie is great too - very strong, but she definitely cares for the people around her. The kids are awesome too. Nahleh is nine and she knows everything about this country and loves to share everything she knows. Elijah, (6) is all boy - running around beating things and rough housing. Judah (3) loves to run around playing with his siblings.

We have adjusted pretty well to the time change - i'm sleeping from around 10 to about 6:30, so i'm pretty pumped about that. I'm also eating all the native food I can get my hands on - squid (awesome), lamb with thai garlic sauce (even better), and lots of local fruit.

We went to a place called Jais Aben and went swimming/snorkeling. It was like swimming in an aquarium. I met all the characters from finding nemo. This place is absolutely beautiful - mountains, oceans, tropical plants. Striking.

We haven't really had to rough it yet - but that is definitely coming. More to come on that later.

Jesse told me today that the village people have prepared some sort of song and dance to welcome us tomorrow, so that will be exciting.

Hope all is well with everyone back in the states!

-C.R.

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