(John's Note: The following is a description of O.E. - the two week adventure Katherine is starting Monday morning, January 26th.)The photo shown is from: photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=3878019&size=lg this site as several pictures form the area where O.E is going to be located this year.
Outdoor Education, marks the most looked-forward-to event of the year. Its on-paper purpose is to expose high school students to various parts of Papua, provide a small taste of anthropological and linguistic study, and to serve and appreciate the indigenous people.
However, students soon find that the hypothetical purpose of O.E. doesn’t come out the way it seems.
During the two weeks they are overwhelmed with spiritual life-building sessions, community development projects, hikes, field trips, and teaching kids’ clubs. It stretches, stresses, and strengthens them, but at the same time brings amazing people and renewal into their lives that would not have come any other way.
Generally the areas are remote, accessible only by plane, boat, or hiking. If the location is in the interior of the province, all the local small plane services provide transportation. Flying in these small planes means that students must pack light, generally around ten kilos (22 lbs).
An example of Interior work done is the past: the students dug a ditch for a water pipe running from a spring to the center of a village a couple of miles away. More details will come in following blog postings.
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