Six Mile
My hotel is in the worst part of Moresby. It has barbed wire and guards. It is hot but generally nice, and people are more friendly here than ever.
But disaster has struck. The conference, good to go, for the past month, has been suddenly changed to three weeks from now.
I have virtually two options.
Going to villages affected by the mine in preparation for teh conference.
Coming home tomorrow and flying here in three weeks, dropping another $2000 that I suppose MPI will finance.
I am terribly confused. Moresby is an expensive place, more expensive than the US in some aspects yet people have a quarter the salary. most people live in in utter shacks and walk barefoot around. While I am not surprised by this poverty, it is great to see it up close. It's very humbling. I took a ride on Public transport a few days ago, and it was great. The rickety old bus coughing along while everyone stares.
People chew lots of betelnut, a sour tasting thing. When mixed with lime, it creates a red color that stains everyone's teeth and the ground when they spit it out.
The girls here are very attractive. The men as well. I would love to take a girl home with me.
Coke is very popular, all the movies are here as well, its just one more place blasted by American media and righteousness. I've had countless number of people apologize to me for their country because of the state its in. Everyone is in love with the idea of America, but if they flew into Los Angeles, drowning in a soup of smog, they'd turn around and head right back. Is this the kind of development they want? Using the US and China, other developed countries with despicable environmental and indigneous records, as a model? Do we want another Mexico City? Is this progress? 99% of PNG's problems are imported, yet they continue to apologize.
On a better note, I have wrenched a ton of data out from the Department of Environment and Conservation plus the Dept of Mining that OTML would never want me to have. And I found out my work is far more controversial than I thought. The company is in the middle of "updating" the predictions they created in 2000, by renegotiating the CMCA's to bring the communities up to speed of what they "didn't" know in 2000. It would be a pity if these documents I've made, proving that all these impacts were well-documented before 2000, got into the hands of community leaders. That just might make this another legal court case. haha.
I have made tons of friends in Moresby, and I can't wait to go to the Western Province.
The living white boy in Port Moresby,
Teddy
But disaster has struck. The conference, good to go, for the past month, has been suddenly changed to three weeks from now.
I have virtually two options.
Going to villages affected by the mine in preparation for teh conference.
Coming home tomorrow and flying here in three weeks, dropping another $2000 that I suppose MPI will finance.
I am terribly confused. Moresby is an expensive place, more expensive than the US in some aspects yet people have a quarter the salary. most people live in in utter shacks and walk barefoot around. While I am not surprised by this poverty, it is great to see it up close. It's very humbling. I took a ride on Public transport a few days ago, and it was great. The rickety old bus coughing along while everyone stares.
People chew lots of betelnut, a sour tasting thing. When mixed with lime, it creates a red color that stains everyone's teeth and the ground when they spit it out.
The girls here are very attractive. The men as well. I would love to take a girl home with me.
Coke is very popular, all the movies are here as well, its just one more place blasted by American media and righteousness. I've had countless number of people apologize to me for their country because of the state its in. Everyone is in love with the idea of America, but if they flew into Los Angeles, drowning in a soup of smog, they'd turn around and head right back. Is this the kind of development they want? Using the US and China, other developed countries with despicable environmental and indigneous records, as a model? Do we want another Mexico City? Is this progress? 99% of PNG's problems are imported, yet they continue to apologize.
On a better note, I have wrenched a ton of data out from the Department of Environment and Conservation plus the Dept of Mining that OTML would never want me to have. And I found out my work is far more controversial than I thought. The company is in the middle of "updating" the predictions they created in 2000, by renegotiating the CMCA's to bring the communities up to speed of what they "didn't" know in 2000. It would be a pity if these documents I've made, proving that all these impacts were well-documented before 2000, got into the hands of community leaders. That just might make this another legal court case. haha.
I have made tons of friends in Moresby, and I can't wait to go to the Western Province.
The living white boy in Port Moresby,
Teddy