M & M in Suriname

Our life with the Wayana indians

Wonderful trip with safe arrival

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The 3’ of May is already two weeks ago when we write this. Safe and sound in the village called Lawa on the Lawa River. In the mean time we were able to get settled in our present home, the World Team mission house at Lawa. We are great full for our trip coming over here. We stayed the night at Stoelmanseiland and left the next morning at 06:00 AM. The second day was almost without any rain. We arrived safe at Lawa around 02:00 PM. Right after this we had to unload the boat.

It looked like ants carrying al our boxes when children and grownups came forward to help us out in this. Especially bringing al goods up the steep hill at the riverside and all along the airstrip to the house. It was amazing to get al this assistance from the people, showing us we were welcome in their village. Marjolein and Margaret were busy storing all the boxes in the dry-room.

Around 5 PM we were able to get a long desired bath in the river. This felt like a perfect closure of a wonderful day. During weekdays we have language studies with Roy Lytle as our teacher. He is very patient with us as he points out different issues after reading the Wajana Bible, guiding us through the language lessons prepared by Ivan Schoen. We are ‘back to basics’ as in the day of primary school. Different ways of building a sentence keep us busy throughout the days. But also moments of joy when we find out we now are able to understand parts of conversation and reading scripture on our own we can figure out what we read… We dressed our ‘bed’room downstairs up with IKEA hanging cupboards we brought along. Now we have room for clothes and other stuff. In the night our kiting fills almost all of the room. We’d rather sleep bug free…

Outside we put our garden chairs. We use them well with making our homework after the afternoon-nap. On the other side of the village we meet with Vankena and his wife Anna. They brought us over from Albina Anna is very helpful in clearly pronouncing words in Wajana. Since she also speaks Sranan Tongo we feel they will be a great help if we would get stuck somewhere in the future. We already wrote a lot of words in our notebooks. For us Dutchmen it’s funny to learn that ‘omo’ means ‘hand’ and ‘pupu’ is ‘foot’. The water pump we brought along had already been put t action. It helps a lot in filling up the tower on one side of the house. We bought some other materials in Maripasula the other day in order to connect both towers and prepare some taps under the house for a shower and a sink.

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