Mowbray Christmas Letter: 1999
The Survey
What will you miss most about PNG? |
What are you looking forward to most in Australia? |
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The people and the informality |
Our new house! |
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The friendly people. |
Seeing old friends, ice cream. |
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Pidgin, the friendliness of other expatriates (esp. missionaries) |
Organized sport, bike riding & inexpensive cooking ingredients. |
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Relaxed Saturday mornings, the friendliness of people, the sense of the unexpected. |
Food we've cooked ourselves, not having to be constantly on my guard against pickpockets. |
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The relaxed lifestyle. The vibrancy of the bush churches. |
Telephones that work, relative safety in the street. |
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Check Last Year's Answers |
What do you enjoy doing most in PNG? |
When we were discussing these questions, we came to realize that when we go back, we will be leaving a home in PNG, and our memories of home in Australia are two years out of date! It is said that culture shock is greater on the homeward journey. It is an unwinnable situation to try and go back to two years ago.
Highlights of our Two Years in Papua New Guinea
How do you condense megabytes of description into a small paragraph? I can't&
Our Plans for the Future?
As you read this, we will probably be still packing our bags for the return journey; still wondering, still dreaming, trying to think about all the pen friends we'll gain rather than the friends we'll miss. When we finally reach Sydney, we'll immediately turn around and head north to my mother's place. Christmas will be spent with my family. Our immediate temporary address can be found over the page. After that, it's all a bit hazy not only for what we think may happen, but also for what we'd like to happen! The New Year will bring a new job, a new house, new schools, and new neighbours. Somewhere: God knows where! May He bless you abundantly this coming year. The Advent promises the biggest blessing: that of His presence. It is a revelation of Jesus' Will and Desire to be with us, close to us, intimate with us. May this year Jesus become closer to you, and may you receive the Grace and Freedom to become intimate with Jesus in this year of Jubilee.