A Wonderful Adventure: The People of 11 Mile

Here in PNG I live on a compound with three other families - when Dave and Cheree vanderWal come to work with Lae City Mission, there will be four families and me in this compound, which will mean it's very full!!

Our houses are close together (it takes me 15 seconds to walk to the nearest one, 20 seconds to walk to another one, 25 seconds to walk to the third house and 30 seconds to walk to the fourth house), so you can imagine that we all see each other a fair bit. In saying that, though, there can be half a day where I don't see a soul. Funny how it goes hey. Our doors are always open and people are always wandering in, which is nice. No running around in undies, you will get caught :)!

It's handy have others so close by that you know well. Cooking and need a bigger pan? Go and ask next door, or the next door or the next door. Run out of milk? Ask next door. Need an egg? Ask next door! What goes around comes around :)

Here are the people of 11 Mile. These photos were taken on Chris and Nicole's last morning in Lae, so they feature in all of them. These are the only group photos I have :) Enjoy!