weekends in lae

Without a vehicle one is restricted to walking or PMV (Bus) along with all the locals. Very few wait men use the PMV and Saturday (Sarere with rolled rrrs in Tok Pisin) is market day when many people go to the huge open air market to do their shopping and they make bus travel a squeezing affair. There are big crushes at the doors of the PMVs and some people climb in the windows to get a place on the bus. Sunday is much the same with people trying to get to church. I go to church - get to the bus stop at say 8.30 and mostly I can get a bus by about quarter (quara with rolled r) past nine for church which stats at 9.30 thus making me 10 minutes late when I get there about quara to 10. I'd love to get to the mouth of the Markham river but its almost like Phantom country down there: Yu no painim mouth bilong Markham River. Markham River painim yupela. Several games of cricket on the ovals today. Dined out at the Lae International Hotel beside the pool with tupela pren bilong mi, Allan na Atul. Mostly in Tok Pisin the f in english words is pronounced p. So fish =pis, Philip=Pilip; find = painim, fight = pait; finger = pinga;
Currently I am working on a paper which I hope might make the short list for the Distance Learning Conference in Port Moresby early April. The thesis I want to share is that the universal paradigm of intelligence which is "owned" by the west locks the world including PNG into linguistic and mathematical models which require instrumental agencies such as the school and university to service the models according to their criteria of demonstrative knowledge but other cultures may have another paradigm of intelligence which can only be known by means of the instrumentalities of another culture and that it is a form of racism to require an intelligent PNGn that he must qualify for University based on the intelligence paradigm of the western culture. Well see how we go as I try to develop my arguments and accumulate some evidence and alternative models. What it means is that tertiary education ought to be meeting the intelligence of students on what the students can offer society through tertiary study, not what the universities can offer society through tertiary education on University terms.