outback to jungle

Musings on experiences of volunteering in Papua New Guinea with some gratuitous domestic social and public comment

Monday, March 13, 2006

Melanesian thinking and singing

The acapella choir is a highlight of our Sunday service and it is another reason that makes me think there must be a Melanesian way of seeing the world which needs to be if not discovered then at least advertised to the world because for all the wonders of the Indo-European and Asian/Eastern ways of thinking, humanity's missing link is world peace. What if the missing link is found in the Melanesian way of thinking? They communicate Melanesianally, they developed Tok Pisin as a common language which is practicable in a way that Esperanto is not. They organise Melanesianally.
University has finally started for this semester. There has been a lot of frustration owing to lots of things going wrong - huge queues for registration and enrolment last week, problems in accommodation, staff frustrations and embarrassment that their students see the pitiful organisation and they have to live with trying to justify that and at the same time be proud that they are part of the University that visits this inefficiency upon fellow human beings.
I got to be the driver today as my department needed to course books on to the Morobe Queen going to Rabaul - a two night trip by sea.

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