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Chapter 5
Patches McPatches the wandering lion teaches us about life in PNG.
After that I needed a
rest so I went and sat under the shelter on the bridge next to my house. My
neighbours Bob and Lucy made it all by themselves. The roof is made from leaves
and it helps to keep the rain off of the wooden bridge so it doesn’t rot. PNG
doesn’t have 4 seasons like NZ does, it only has 2. Wet season and dry season,
so sometimes it rains here A LOT!
After that I felt a
little bit sick, maybe I ate too many green guavas, so I went down to the
hospital. Nurse Grace said I had a high temperature. She gave me some pink
medicine to make me feel better.
Chapter 4
When I got home I put
my rice away and went to check on my garden. A lot of the food we eat here we
grow ourselves.
First I went and checked the pineapple patch. You have to be careful because the leaves are really spiky.
Then I checked the Ma’a tree. There were no ma’as today but the tree had lots of pretty pink flowers instead of yummy pink fruit.
Then I checked the guava tree. A guava starts out green and turns yellow when it’s ready to eat. This one is just right.
Some
of my friends saw me in the trees and wanted to play.
In some parts of the world people are subsistence farmers - they grow what they eat and live on whatever fish or bush animals they can catch. If you had to grow, harvest or catch your own meal what would it be?
Activity.
Design and make your own swing for your back yard. Does it work as well as the one in the photo.
Life as a child in PNG
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