Yea, I know ... this picture doesn't look like a normal NTM survey in the Sepik. We usually are moving by chopper or trapsing around the deep jungle sleeping in remote villages. Not on this trip, where the purpose was to survey language vitality along the road that heads inland from Wewak past Maprik. This picture is taken at a high-school along the road where Greg and I swapped stories with students ... in English! Yes, things are changing rapidly in PNG, and in this area schools are bypassing pidgin altogether and teaching in English from 4th grade on. It was remarkable to explore these areas not so far but so very different than the Nakui jungle.
