OMG THE RAIN!
Where does it all come from?! My little Primark brolly keeps me dry for a almost a minute before i get completely drenched. I'm sure the locals, with their parasol sized monsoon-standard umbrellas are laughing at me... i feel quite inadequate.
Apart from being soaked to the skin, things in Alotau are going pretty well. Nearly at the end of my second week and still with internal medicine. Going to O&G on monday...woop!
Everyone and everything here is a lot more advanced than i thought it would be... everyone has a laptop, which they talk about and compare at every given opportunity. I even had to give a powerpoint presentation the other day on cerebrovascular disease... what's that all about?! I want to lie on a beach!
Went to a vilalge across the bay called Wagawaga at the weekend with a Japanese girl i'd met at the lodge. We stayed in a lodge in the middle of the jungle which was fantastic, apart from the dinnerplate sized spider which had made the blacony it's home. Everytime you went within a 3 metre radius of it's web it would start scuttling over towards us. So, suffice to say, we didn't get to relax on our balcony and watch the sunset much! Snorkelled over a WW2 ship wreck and saw clownfish, and a whole load of others. Came back over the bay on a severly overloaded dinghy which was a bit scary, i kept looking to see which coastline was closer incase i had to swim to the shore if it capsized! lol! luckily i made it to the other side!
I have noticed a grammatical anomally which is very annoying and has caught me out several times since i have been here. When you ask someone a question with a negative in it such as,
"Are you not coming to my house for dinner tonight?"
people here will answer "yes", agreeing with the statement, meaning no they are not coming to dinner tonight. So wierd! Or maybe we are wrong?!
Going to Tawali, a dive resort on the north coast of Milne Bay Province, for a "lads" weekend with some of the Docs from the hospital. Haha! The way they are talking i think i will have to get my drinking hat on! my goodness people from PNG can drink... Kabe one of the docs took me out for "a few beers" the other night and payed for 12 as soon as we arrived. I couldn't keep up... he drank them like water... what shame! Took me a good few hours to walk home... humidity and hangovers are not a nice combination... especially in the TB ward :(
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I have noticed a grammatical anomally which is very annoying and has caught me out several times since i have been here. When you ask someone a question with a negative in it such as,
"Are you not coming to my house for dinner tonight?"
people here will answer "yes", agreeing with the statement, meaning no they are not coming to dinner tonight. So wierd! Or maybe we are wrong?!
the first anomaly was the spelling of anomaly the second was the spelling of weird - or were you being ironic by spelling weird in a wierd way.. ... How ever the point is this - structurally the subject should compliment the object - so it is proper to say or to write things like - "Are you not coming to my house for dinner tonight?" and have them answered in the affirmative - there is a comic / novelty song about this called " YES WE HAVE NO BANANAS " by Frank Silver and Irving Cohn that was a major hit in 1923, and its one of the top songs of the 20th century. The song was first recorded by Billy Jones, Arthur Hall, Irving Kaufman and others that year, and covered later by Benny Goodman and his Orchestra, Spike Jones & His City Slickers and many more. It also inspired a follow-up, "I've got the Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues", recorded by Jones and others in 1923.
.... so it is correct to say Yes to agree that the negative is positive . Pretty much its only foreigners who fall into this trap. Ok - am off out now Cheers Michael
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