When you\u2019re in a country like Papua New Guinea, you laugh a lot\u2026you have to!\u00a0 Either things are really funny; or things aren\u2019t funny at all, and you have to find ways to make yourself laugh!\u00a0 Here are some things that I\u2019m thinking of that I\u2019ve been laughing about this week!<\/p>\n
*The kids (and adults) LOVE Sophie!\u00a0 The kids always want to touch her and pull on her.\u00a0 It\u2019s a little annoying, but we\u2019ve taught her, and Olivia, to say \u201cNo, you no ken touchim me!\u201d\u00a0 So Sophie screams this, and it\u2019s so funny, it makes everyone laugh!<\/p>\n
*Mostly everyone here is \u201cboon\u201d, which means bone\/skinny.\u00a0 Well, I\u2019ve been called \u201cfatpela meri\u201d, which means fat lady plenty times.\u00a0 I told my language helper that it makes me sad.\u00a0 And she said that it was a great thing to be fat!\u00a0 So she said to say, \u201cTenkyu, mi Amamas!\u201d, which means \u201cthank you, I\u2019m so happy!\u201d\u00a0 So now, I sarcastically say, \u201cTENKYU, MI AMAMAS!!\u201d\u00a0 Makes me laugh!<\/p>\n
*The kids run around naked\u2026which is \u201cahs nutting!\u201d\u2026funny in itself!!<\/p>\n
*Some women walk around topless a lot!\u00a0 We don\u2019t always say it, but we think \u201cOh, good morning susu (breasts)\u2026I mean susa (sister)!!!!!!\u00a0 Now, that\u2019s funny!!<\/p>\n
*\u201dMi les!\u201d\u00a0 This is a frustrating phrase, but we\u2019ve learned to laugh at it!\u00a0 Here are some ways it\u2019s used: You see a kid, and he isn\u2019t at school.\u00a0 You ask him, \u201coh, no school today?\u201d\u00a0 He says, \u201cYeah, but I\u2019m les (lazy).\u00a0 If it\u2019s cloudy at all, they say that it\u2019s not a good day to do anything\u2026go to work, come to your house, go fishing\/find food, etc.\u00a0 If they just don\u2019t want to go to work\u2026\u201dMi les!\u201d-You gotta laugh!<\/p>\n
*There is so much to do around here.\u00a0 I do the laundry, and hang the clothes up on the line\u2026but sometimes I forget about them!\u00a0 It rains almost every night now, so if I forget, I\u2019ve learned to laugh and say, \u201coh well, I guess they will dry tomorrow and we will smell like rain!\u201d<\/p>\n
*My language helper, and almost everyone else in the area sings, \u201cEEEEEEEEEEE!\u201d when something is funny.\u00a0 We do that all the time now.\u00a0 It makes you feel good!<\/p>\n
* Last thing: When you really need a good laugh at the end of the day, you can always find a lizard crawling on your window screen.\u00a0 You just walk up to it and flick the screen.\u00a0 The lizards goes flying off if it!\u00a0 EEEEEEEEEE! Funny!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When you\u2019re in a country like Papua New Guinea, you laugh a lot\u2026you have to!\u00a0 Either things are really funny; or things aren\u2019t funny at all, and you have to find ways to make yourself laugh!\u00a0 Here are some things that I\u2019m thinking of that I\u2019ve been laughing about this week! *The kids (and adults) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}