Moving to Telefomin

The village of Telefomin has been our home now for just over 3 weeks. Telefomin and the other nearby villages are on a plateau surrounded by mountains all around so we are enjoying the change from the prairies of Manitoba! There is one other MAF family here right now (the only other white people here besides us) with 3 girls, ages 2,4 and 6. The people are very friendly and the kids spend much of their time playing with national kids in the neighborhood - climbing trees, making forts, playing soccer, tag, etc. or making fires (burning the dry bush grass). It rains nearly every day but lately we've had less rain, which means the hydro electricity is on only for a couple of hours throughout the day and evening. (We have a back-up generator to make sure our freezer doesn't defrost with 3 months worth of meat all at once!) We are really enjoying living here and feeling more and more at home.