Our pilot, Randy, did a good job of flying us around safely.

Village boys meet our plane. Lots of boys carry machettes to clear the trails of tree branches. There are not any stores to buy clothes, so people wear lots of second hand shirts and pants. Some of these kids look like they need new shirts.

The missionary told me lots of stories sitting in this chair. He has spent 25 years translating the Bible for these people, and is almost done. He and his wife have lots of pictures of their children and grandchildren on the wall behind his chair. The outside of their house is shown in the picture on the right.

The jungle is very dense and it extends in many places for miles and miles. People live in areas that have been cleared by burning, and then the houses are constructed out of poles, wicker walls and thatch roofs. A view of the village is shown on the left.

The village doctor met us and showed us his office. He has many pills and a few tools, but I wouldn't want to get sick there. Lots of the children wear capes made of tree bark. Before people had access to western clothes, this is the fabric they always wore. On the right, you can see the doctor in the pharmacy.

There are 300 students in the school this year. All the desks and benches are made out of hand hewn boards, so they aren't very flat and nothing is straight. The students work on slates and sometimes draw with sticks on the ground. Only the final version is written on paper. The girls on the right are students in the school. The girl in pink showed us her school book. There were exercises in counting from 50 to 100, and sentences mostly in English. A few places, I noticed Pidgin words inserted into the sentences.

This picture shows a girl with her pet bird. She has tied a string tied around its foot, and the other end around her wrist. It is a lot of fun to play with a bird and her friends enjoy it too.