What is green and blue and full of smiles?
I’m typing this from my hotel room in Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea. I’m here for two weeks to visit various projects for CARE, and am really looking forward to getting out in the field again, it’s been too long.
As I find I always do when visiting a new place, I try and take notice of my first impressions. Today I felt that familiar feeling take over me as I craned my neck around to see as many angles from out the plane window. The first thing that struck me as we approached the main island was the hyper-blue waters that hugged the coastline. Man, this water was blue. The kind of blue you see in tourist brochures for Tahiti and Thailand. The kind of blue that calls your name at the end of a long work week with promises of forgetfulness.
Next came all the green. Lush grass greens, deep foresty greens, and lighter greens all mixed in together. Clearly this country sees a lot of rain. And it looks nothing like my own country from the sky. Nothing at all.
And just the promise of difference, these things to note, pricked my ears and alerted my senses and have kicked me right into the gear of The Outsider, but in a good way.
I love the rush of a new place, and Papua New Guinea, I can’t wait to launch in.
