Update #53

It's been 10 days of living in a 8 x 10 room with a small fan & thin mat.  We store bottled water & Coke Zero under our table & on top we stack food, books, TP, used ziplock bags, 2 cut off water bottles (our cups), 2 styrofoam trays (our plates), sunscreen, bug spray & few other odds & ends.  Towels & slightly dirty clothes hang from chairs & curtain rods.  Suitcases lay open and over flowing in the corners of the room.  The fan moves to where we sit.  Showers are cold...which is actually a good thing...but like so many other things...we never know when the water will be on.  Dogs fight, frogs croak, neighbors burn garbage & vehicles filled with noisy passengers outside our window.  Salamanders, various insects, lines of ants are frequent roommates...cockroaches just occasionally.  We live better than most PNG that we see here around PM.  Many new developments are usually for the Malaysians.  Yesterday we stopped at a hotel to use wifi.  It was plush & filled with foreigners paying $300 a night...we're paying $30.  Am I jealous...only a little.  They have the amenities.  We have the PNG people.