26.4.09

Sunday Night Campfire

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Last night, we had a campfire... several of the missionary families headed up there; we roasted marshmallows, made smores, and had a wonderful time of singing, sharing, and prayer. What a great way to finish up a Sunday!












The Ice Cream Shop

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The Radcliffe children have opened an Ice Cream Shop, open on Sunday Afternoons with homemade ice cream...
They have done quite brisk business, had many suggestions for new flavours, and if they closed the shop now there would be weeping and gnashing of teeth on Kudjip Mission Station.



















by the way, the "2K" on that sign stands for "2 kina" ... kina being the currency here in PNG.


When I went there yesterday to... uh... do my part in the support of MKs at business ventures... I saw Aden and Wiley Riggins with these shirts on, and I had to take pictures...




















25.4.09

Highschoolers Movie Night

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Katie, the teacher for the MK highschool, put together a movie night for the highschoolers... we watched Evan Almighty, which is a quite hilarious movie... and that was the choice because the guys voted against Enchanted. Imagine that.

Becky Wallace, a volunteer doctor here, hosted the activity. So by 7:00PM Becky's house was full of highschoolers. We had popcorn and cookies... and Gail Dooley provided cute little popcorn boxes.
Katie declared that there would not be caffeine-laden drinks (coke) provided, but if the kids' parents were ok with them coming home wired, then they could bring their own coke.
















Here are the inhabitants of the MK highschool:
(left to right)
Quinton, myself, Cilla Radcliffe, Jo Radcliffe, Katie Conner (the teacher), and Jessica Myers.



















It was awesome fun, lots of laughter, plenty of sugar, and great friends. We have to do this again sometime!


21.4.09

Scrubbing In

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Yes, my hands were actually clean yesterday. Each finger, scrubbed 5 times on each side... that's a total of 20 scrubs on each finger, making for a total of 100 scrubs on the fingers, if you are counting, plus 5 times on the front of the hand plus 5 times on the back of the hand (we're at 110), plus up the arm to the elbow a few times, making for a grand total of about 150 scrubs. That's why it's called scrubbing in, I suppose....

Then, if you touch anything... anything at all... even a little bump... you must start the whole thing over again. Fortunately I didn't touch anything.

Yes, I passed Auntie Margaret's test and can now name each instrument for minor surgery... I wonder how I could get my last name applied to a forceps? It's about as long as the names they have now...

And, Auntie Margaret let me scrub in to help with a fairly simple surgery. She's at the right side of the picture, halfway out. The surgeons there are Dr. Jim Radcliffe (at the left) and his son Ben (at the right).



















Also I thought I'd share this little thought from the Operating Theatre... when you don't have a bread knife... you can always use a scalpel for the OT staff tea. Auntie Margaret assured me that it was a new scalpel.


19.4.09

Oh wow! the internet is still there!

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I was sort of wondering... after all, I hadn't been on for... a while.

I finally got back online, after a couple weeks of traveling, and peeked at my inbox. Gulp.

But here I am back again, at.... uh... home. Kudjip-home, that is. And I'm settling back into life in the highlands of PNG.

Other than the fact that I'm back, there's not much more to say (but don't worry, I'll find something anyway)... just everyday life on the Kudjip Nazarene Mission Station....

I went into the Operating Theatre for a couple hours Thursday morning, watched a couple surgeries. I asked Auntie Margaret (the awesomest scrub nurse ever) if she would help me learn the names of some of the equipment and tools and things... and trust me, there's a lot of complicated-looking stuff in there. She lent me a big blue book "Auntie Margaret's Operating Theatre Procedure Manual" which I am now studying. I have a strong suspicion that I shall have a test tomorrow, on surgery day.

And, I made candied peanuts this morning from some peanuts the Myers gave us... I do like peanuts plain, but ANYTHING is better with sugar on it. So now, I need to eat all of those that I'm going to want, because when my brother gets home from school, he is going to inhale the rest of them.... welcome to life with a teenage brother!

Also this week... or last week, rather... this last week... whatever.... we switched furniture with Erin Meier... here's her blog post about it
See, Dad, Quinton, and I all have allergies and would prefer to sit on furniture which is as dust-free as possible, no matter how uncomfortable it is. I for one, would probably rather sit on a plastic bench than anything else.
Erin does not have this kind of allergies, and leans more toward furniture that you can sit on without wincing.
However, in our house there was fluffy, squishy, comfortable couches that held dust marvelously and which mom must needs sit on alone while the rest of us looked sneezily on; while in Erin's house there was furniture with removable cushion covers and wipe-down-able armrests which were not the most conducive for curling up with a good book. Sooooo... we switched! And the inhabitants of both houses were quite delighted with the result. Much fewer sneezes for us, much more squishy couches for her! There's pictures on her blog post.

Well... it's almost time for lunch, so I shall end this blog post, which was meant to let you all know that I am still alive, and in the general vicinity of the planet, though most certainly quite dangerously near it's edge.