{"id":655,"date":"2014-04-21T22:38:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T04:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/?p=655"},"modified":"2014-04-21T22:38:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T04:38:45","slug":"come-up-png-woman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/2014\/04\/21\/come-up-png-woman\/","title":{"rendered":"“Come up PNG woman!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, Mandy (one of our co-workers) and I became women of Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 Okay, that sounds kind of weird\u2026but we got to experience what it\u2019s like to be women in Papua New Guinea!\u00a0 Our day started out normal, we started a load of laundry (in the rain), and then when the rain stopped, we hang the clothes on the line.\u00a0 After that, our \u201cporo\u201d (friends) came to get us and we left for the market.\u00a0 So that you can track with me, it\u2019s pretty much like a farmer\u2019s market in America!<\/p>\n

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We all walked in a single file line down the street with our bilum (bags) on our heads.\u00a0 I kept telling my language helper, Rosemary, that I was afraid of the cars driving by.\u00a0 She assured me that they wouldn\u2019t hit me.\u00a0 We made it to the market (in one piece) and they walked us all around to look at everything first.\u00a0 We wanted to learn about all of the different things that people grow in PNG.\u00a0 Here are some of the ones we learned bout: sweet potato (not orange inside!), yam (different than sweet potato!), taro, taro kongkong, tapiok, pitpit, cooking banana (not the kind you think), sweet banana (like you think), Coconuts, all different kinds of greens (like pumpkin leaves), and much more!\u00a0 We scoped out all of the prices and bought some of everything!\u00a0 We had had so much in our bags, that I had Rosemary carry it all, because my head is not strong enough to carry a bag full of food!!\u00a0 She understands!<\/p>\n

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We walked back to Mandy\u2019s helper\u2019s house, Barbera, and started preparing lunch.\u00a0 Let me remind you that you never go into their houses, so all of the cleaning\/cooking is done outside!\u00a0 So I started scraping coconuts, while Mandy peeled all of the vegetables.\u00a0 Then we squeezed the coconut scrapings to make \u201cgrease\u201d and then mixed it in the pot with the coconut water.\u00a0 We then added all of the vegetables and greens to the pot.\u00a0 All was well and we thought, \u201cthis wont be so bad.\u201d\u00a0 Famous last words!\u00a0 Barbera opened up a sack and pulled out this huge fish WITH EYEBALLS STILL IN TACT!\u00a0 She took it straight from the sack to the pot!\u00a0 I thought, \u201cI could have done without that thing!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lots of praying going on here!\u00a0 Praying that we don\u2019t get sick, praying that I don\u2019t eat an eyeball, praying praying!\u00a0 We all sat on the porch storying (what they do all day long) while we waited on the food to cook.\u00a0 It was great!\u00a0 We\u2019ve built great relationships with these two, so we chatted more than surface level!<\/p>\n

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The food was done cooking and Barbera \u201cscaled\u201d everything to make sure that we all got some of everything.\u00a0 As we sat down to eat it (on the ground), it was not bad!!\u00a0 As I tried it all, I would make sure I ask what it was\u2026so I could remember what I like and what I don\u2019t like!\u00a0 The three things that I like the most: sweet potato, greens, and the FISH!\u00a0 Yes\u2026the fish was amazing.\u00a0 (don\u2019t worry, I didn\u2019t get the face on my plate!)<\/p>\n

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It was a great day.\u00a0 The whole experience took 7 hours.\u00a0 We loved getting to see how it\u2019s like doing life with them (minus having our wonderful kids and husband!)\u00a0 While the food is not my favorite, the people are; and it is so vital that I learn to do things with them, so that I can one day disciple them in their own language!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Saturday, Mandy (one of our co-workers) and I became women of Papua New Guinea.\u00a0 Okay, that sounds kind of weird\u2026but we got to experience what it\u2019s like to be women in Papua New Guinea!\u00a0 Our day started out normal, we started a load of laundry (in the rain), and then when the rain stopped, […]<\/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-655","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\/655","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=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}