We just violated the traffic rules, twice.

SPINIM! SPINIM!

OKEI, NEGEMBA! NEGEMBA!

Pulling out dangerously onto the freeway, violating traffic rules at 4 Mile, Boroko, Port Moresby.

It all happened in a flash, one minute, the bus crew was outside of the bus yelling directions over to the driver while peeling his eyes out for traffic police and estimating the speed of the incoming traffic.

Next minute", he was hollering in Tok Pisin. " SPINIM! SPINIM!" meaning "Spin around! Spin around!" as he bolted into the bus door. Standing inside the moving bus, he shouted in his local language. "Negemba! Negemba!" which I'm guessing to mean "Let's go! Let's go!"

At the previous illegal stop, we picked up a group of church ladies. That time it was the driver who lashed out playfully in Hiri Motu, "Haraga! Haraga!" meaning, "Hurry up!"

Just a typical day in Port Moresby's bus commute.

What was your latest bus adventure? Did you observe the use of languages around you? Who were the annoying characters in the bus?

Well, now, I'm finally here at the POM Gen Pathology, following up on my biopsy results, making good use of the waiting time, writing this piece, as people around me complain about the delay. "Wanem taim ol bai open? 1 o'clock pinis." "When will they open? It's already 1 o'clock." 😅