Last Sunday I headed out to KBBN radio station for church outside of Mt Hagen with Nick and his family. Nick works in aviation stores with MAF and is a good friend. He lives in a village about 10-15 minutes drive out of town. The church is heading out on the other side of town on the old highway, about five minutes drive out of town. So normally Nick and his family have some distance to walk from their village to catch a PMV to town and then catch a PMV from town out to church. I have been there several times now and have been trying to visit again with them since the New Year.
1. The Family - Janet, Megia, Kamima, Celima & Nick (I love Nick’s hat, put on just for the photo)
After picking up Nick and his family we headed out to the KBBN radio station where Bible Fruit Baptist Church is located. The church has very good teaching and a friendly congregation. The Pastor and his family are from America have just returned to PNG, so it was good to finally meet them. The service normally breaks up into groups for Sunday school before getting back together for the main service. I always feel old since I have to go to the youth’s group being a yangpela man (youth, single man). It was a good service and good to visit the church, but refreshing to be out of town.
2. The girls
After the service we headed back into town to buy some supplies for belo kaikai (lunch time). After buying food and drink plus some ice cream we headed out to Nick’s village Kolcop. Normally I would drop them off but this would first time to have lunch together at his village. As usual sausages were the go and Nick started to get a fire going while Janet prepared the food. I asked what I could do, I wasn’t asked to do anything except to sit down and relax. In the meantime while talking with Nick, we just entertained the three girls. Megia (nickname Maggie) is the youngest of the three at one and a half. She is a lot of fun, entertaining and very cute. She is hard to understand at times and has been scared of me at times ever since she was a few months old. She wouldn’t let me hold her. She called me Aunty instead of Uncle, haha.
3. Nick getting the fire going
After cooking lunch outside on an open fire we ate inside Nick’s house. It was a good feed and we stori (talk, share stories). Nick has had a few hard weeks out in the village. Again Megia was like a TV set, creating entertainment for all of us. One thing was Nick would growl and she would run away towards Janet. At first she wasn’t sure if it was me or Nick doing the growling. But she would run away screaming with laughter. After while I thought I should do some filming of the family. Afterwards I showed it to them and was a big thing for them. Megia recognised herself, the girls really loved it.
4. Megia finishing off the coke
After a while it was almost five o’clock so it was time to start to depart. When saying goodbye Megia for the first time walked up to me and shaked my hand to everyone’s amazement. It was a really good day of fellowship with Nick’s family and good time out in his village. For our friendship to grow more outside of work and with his family too.
