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Post 205: Dumping Your Money Into A Slot Machine And Hoping A Boarding Pass Will Come Out
Janice flies to Port Moresby to get a root canal and the root canal was the least painful part.
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Post 204: Kiwi, The Green Car Alarm.
A screeching Eclectus parrot teaches me a lesson about contentment.
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Post 203: Phantom Potholes & Life Lessons
Potholes get fixed, Elliot learns to use a drill, and we get an espresso maker which keeps our guard up all night.
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Photo Bomb 1: Bats, Bugs, Boisterous Children
The first photo bomb in what will hopefully become a series. Just a pile of pictures (from my big camera) with captions beneath them.
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Post 202: Simple Solutions Versus Wild Ambition
The potholes become so bad they close the road and detour us through a swamp full of potholes.
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Post 201: Anyone In Their Right Mind Knows That Animals Don’t Use Toilets.
We eat antibiotics like Tic-Tacs, we try not to curse the world, and Elliot gets new underwear.
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VIDEO: Village Hopping In A Floatplane In Papua New Guinea
Throwing things out of a moving airplane can sometimes help advance the Gospel.
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VIDEO: Shopping at the Market
Please excuse the lousy Tok Pisin. Come along with me to the main market at Wewak on a Saturday morning. There are many little markets all over this town, but…
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Post 200: Our First Tropical Christmas
Prepping for my Exam In the last post I mentioned that I needed to take some more tests. I have to take these tests at an authorized testing center and…
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Post 199: Airplane In A Box
Even the most stoic mechanic will leap around and shout like a spirit-filled Pentecostal if the airplane goes down when it was supposed to go up.
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Post 198: Dying from Boredom Is Entirely Preventable
It’s disheartening to have a patient heal from tuberculosis or some other horrible condition only to die from boredom a week later.
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Post 197: Common Cockroaches & Exotic Marsupials
It can be an unsettling transition to go from sipping coffee to having a marsupial in your hair without any time to get used to the idea.
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Post 196: Do Fish Even Sting People?
Suddenly a spiny fin shot out of the sand and stabbed Kenneth in the thumb, then made a hasty retreat into deeper waters. Kenneth made a hasty retreat back to…
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VIDEO: Ride Along on a Visit to the Haus Sik
After we fly patients in, we all take turns going and visiting them. Come with our family on a trip to the local “Haus Sik.”
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Death Warmed Over Is Better Than Death Served Cold, But It’s Still Worrisome.
Janice picks up some strange tropical disease and Adi gets stitches which causes me to muse about suffering and its effects.
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I Know What’s Wrong With My Faucet But What’s Wrong With My Feet?
I have a revelation about feet while walking to the hardware store to look for a new faucet.
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Speaking Funny
Language learning is shifting from memorizing vocabulary to the next step: Embarrassing oneself.
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So Far We’ve Been Spreading Diabetes More Effectively Than The Gospel…
But thank you for your patience with us. Good things take time!
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VIDEO: Ride Along On A Medivac
We fly out to Chambri Lakes to pick up a girl with malaria complications.
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Boy Bitten By Snake (Updated)
I have the opportunity to ride along to the hospital with a Samaritan Aviation patient.
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My Fate Was To Stand There For Eternity Wishing I Were Dead.
We move to Wewak, Papua New Guinea to start our term with Samaritan Aviation.
