Title – Football New Guinea Style
Date – August 2001
Location - The Sepik – Papua New Guinea
It is really no exaggeration that football is a global language. It seems sometimes that nowhere in the world is there a place that you can’t buy a Coke or find someone to talk to about the English Premiership. With a player from almost every country in the world playing for one Premiership team or another, the people in their home countries follow their every move and often know a lot more about our football, then we do ourselves. It’s a great way to get to know people and to start a conversation with the locals.
However here on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea you are unlikely to get any response to your questions about Steven Gerrard, with no electricity, communication and transport connections (with the exception of the dug-out canoe) news travels very very slowly and the priorities are as different as they can get from a Saturday afternoon in the UK. But give them a little free time and a ball made of rolled up rags and the difference between this setting and your local common at home are much less obvious.
Beyond The Blue as part of a Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop examines the aspects of communication that we all have in common no matter where we come from. We run communication exercises to demonstrate communication blocks and how to overcome them.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
Date – August 2001
Location - The Sepik – Papua New Guinea
It is really no exaggeration that football is a global language. It seems sometimes that nowhere in the world is there a place that you can’t buy a Coke or find someone to talk to about the English Premiership. With a player from almost every country in the world playing for one Premiership team or another, the people in their home countries follow their every move and often know a lot more about our football, then we do ourselves. It’s a great way to get to know people and to start a conversation with the locals.
However here on the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea you are unlikely to get any response to your questions about Steven Gerrard, with no electricity, communication and transport connections (with the exception of the dug-out canoe) news travels very very slowly and the priorities are as different as they can get from a Saturday afternoon in the UK. But give them a little free time and a ball made of rolled up rags and the difference between this setting and your local common at home are much less obvious.
Beyond The Blue as part of a Gap Year and Independent Travel Safety & Awareness workshop examines the aspects of communication that we all have in common no matter where we come from. We run communication exercises to demonstrate communication blocks and how to overcome them.
Please visit our website at www.safegapyear.com
Image – ©Peter Mayhew
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