Joseph Tim Barnes lectured in Design and Technology to secondary school student teachers in the University of Papua New Guinea education faculty in Goroka during the years 1989-1991. This book is a collection of the letters he wrote to family and friends during those years—a snapshot in time of years spent in another country and another culture from someone seeing it all for the first time. The author and photographer describes the people and events that were part of his life, illustrating the text with many colourful photographs.