Vanuatu

We've arrived in Port Vila, Vanuatu! Ross and Lyndal Webb, the Directors of SIL Vanuatu and good friends from Papua New Guinea picked us up at the airport and have been taking great care of us! We've been learning lots about the work here and I'll be sharing about it in forthcoming blogs but did you know that Vanuatu has 110 languages and they think a Bible translation will be needed in about 60 languages? SIL is currently working in 15 languages and have completed 3 New Testaments. So there's lots of work to be done. Anybody interested?

Above is the SIL office and we are staying in a 2 bedroom flat on the 3rd. floor. Ross and Lyndal conveniently live right above us. Below is our kitchen.

To the left is the view out of the window in our living room. Morris moved the chairs this morning so we could drink our coffee and look at the view.

We've been here for a little over 24 hours and to our surprise, we realize we are experiencing some culture shock. We thought we had all this "transition to another country" figured out but then we remembered that returning to PNG after a furlough always took some adjustments too. It's good to know it's normal and then remind ourselves that in a few days life will feel more normal and routine. Even though we've had some culture shock, we are really glad to be here and are looking forward to the coming days. Fortunately, the first 24 hours have been cooler than normal! :)