{"id":290,"date":"2014-03-28T22:54:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/?p=290"},"modified":"2014-03-28T22:54:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-29T03:54:46","slug":"life-in-png-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/2014\/03\/28\/life-in-png-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly\/","title":{"rendered":"Life in PNG, The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is the style here in PNG - They call them "Meri (woman) blouses!"<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Great things include:<\/p>\n

The People: They are very friendly. Anytime you are on the road walking, which is the number one way of transportation here, every one has to tell each other what they are doing. So, If you pass a person they must tell you where they are going and you must tell them what you are doing.\u00a0 It\u2019s a kind of greeting.\u00a0 There is no \u201cminding your own business\u201d in PNG.<\/p>\n

The Fruit and Veggies. If you put it in the ground it will grow! And it is yummy!<\/p>\n

The Scenery: It is like being on an exotic vacation all the time! We have an ocean view from our front porch!<\/p>\n

Working together as a Family: Most husbands and wife\u2019s do not get to work together.\u00a0 Jeremy and I see each other a lot and help each other with language, and it is so great getting to be with our kids as much as we do learning language.<\/p>\n

Our friends: Our coworkers BJ and Jill Sanders and their sweet kiddos are here doing life with us, which make things so much better.\u00a0 They are our family here!<\/p>\n

The not so great things:<\/p>\n

The bugs: Bugs are crazy here.\u00a0 We get bit a lot.\u00a0 The flies are really nuts.\u00a0 If you have a small cut on your skin, they will attack it and get it very infected so you must cover all cuts ASAP. Also I have gotten pretty used to ants being on my counter tops all the time.\u00a0 Not to mention mosquitos love mine and the girls skin.\u00a0 Calamine Lotion is my new BFF!<\/p>\n

The heat: Without AC you really notice how hot it is.\u00a0 Cold showers are awesome.\u00a0 The hottest part of the day is when I am cooking dinner so it\u2019s like extra, extra hot with the stove or oven going. Because you sweat practically all the time, all you feel is sticky and never really very clean. French Braids have been nice to keep my hair off my neck.<\/p>\n

No Fast food: Every meal I make takes time. We are missing getting to eat out whenever we want.\u00a0 Chick-fil-a sounds so good right now! And McDonalds breakfast!<\/p>\n

The Mold: Mold grows like wild fire because of all the humidity. We are finding it on plenty of things, Clothes, bathroom bags, my Vera Bradley Cover for my Chi:( , and other things.<\/p>\n

To sum it up the good overrides the bad. We did not come her for the comfort, but to tell those who have not heart about The Creator God who loves them and wants a relationship with them. We are so thankful for your prayers.\u00a0Thank you for holding the ropes back at home for us so that we can endure the good and bad for God’s glory here in PNG!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Great things include: The People: They are very friendly. Anytime you are on the road walking, which is the number one way of transportation here, every one has to tell each other what they are doing. So, If you pass a person they must tell you where they are going and you must tell […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":967,"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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/967"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/jeremy-hambrice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}