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Alma's Village
1:36 PM, Wednesday, 26 July, 2006
On Sunday my friend Alma took Kristen, Yehia and I out to her village. We were picked up at 7:30 in the morning by a car full of family - Alma, her husband Jo, and their six children. We were off to a village in Central Province called Small Hula, where Alma's wantoks live.
Two and a half hours of driving later, including getting bogged and the bus almost being swallowed by giant potholes and we were there. Here's a photo of the road into the village:
The village is right next to the sea, with the most AMAZING beach. It was a bit of a cloudy day but nothing could blemish these postcard views:
This is Alma's parents' house. We stopped there and had delicious locally-grown lemongrass tea with coconut cookies. They also gave us lunch of about 6 or 7 different kinds of yams, with chicken and vegies, and cooking bananas, all cooked in coconut. There was even sago, cooked in coconut and banana, which was actually tasty! So delicious that Yehia went up for more! Jo said that people would love to invite him to their house, because he obviously likes their food.
Here is the view of the neighbour's house from the back of Alma's parents' house, and the next village up the coast:
Alma knew everyone in the village, including all of the cute pikininis. This is her neice:
We went for a little swim on the beach, which was lovely. There were hundreds of gorgeous starfish in so many colours everywhere - this is Alma's son, JY, and a giant starfish:
We finished the day EXHAUSTED, and drove by the chief's house to pick up some fresh guava, starfruit and oranges. Thanks Alma for a really wonderful experience!
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It looks fabulous!
Pikinini is now the word I'm going to use instead of "children".
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