{"id":257,"date":"2013-02-02T04:02:17","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T09:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/2013\/02\/02\/a-picture-tour-of-the-campus\/"},"modified":"2013-02-02T04:02:17","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T09:02:17","slug":"a-picture-tour-of-the-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/a-picture-tour-of-the-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"A Picture Tour of the Campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here I would like to conduct my reade=<br \/>\nrs on a brief tour about the Divine Word University campus in Madang, Pa=<br \/>\npua New Guinea. &#8230; <\/p>\n<p><!--more-->First, I should point out that these =<br \/>\ndays DWU operates several campuses, a few elsewhere in Madang and severa=<br \/>\nl in other cities.  These pictures are all from the &quot;main&quot; or =<br \/>\noriginal campus.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#39;s begin with this sidewalk scene headi=<br \/>\nng toward the Administration Building.<br \/><span class=3D'imgleft'><img =\nalt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/13487772\/=\ntoward%20admin%20building.jpg' \/><\/span><br \/>I like this picture because=<br \/>\n it is so typical, with the long straight row of palm trees beside the s=<br \/>\nidewalk.  There is a &quot;front&quot; of the admin building that maybe =<br \/>\nI will post on some other day (after I take the picture).<\/p>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<p>Here is the campus chapel, the Joseph Freinademetz C=<br \/>\nhapel.<br \/><span class=3D'imgleft'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.my=\nopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/13487772\/chapel.jpg' \/><\/span><br \/>It is =<br \/>\nnamed after one of the earliest members of the Society of the Divine Wor=<br \/>\nd (SVD), who was a missionary to China.<\/p>\n<p><br=\n\/><\/p>\n<p>Two typical street scenes.<br \/><span class=3D'imgleft'><img =\nalt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/13487772\/=\nstreet%20scene%20near%20library.jpg' \/><\/span><br \/><span class=3D'imgrig=\nht'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/=\n13487772\/street%20scene%20housing%20area.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b=\nr\/><\/p>\n<p>The one is near the front of the campus, near the=<br \/>\n library.  I&#39;m not sure what all the flagpoles are for.  The other i=<br \/>\ns approaching one of several staff housing areas on campus.  This is not=<br \/>\n our neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking =<br \/>\nof residents, here are some of the dormitories.<br \/><span class=3D'imgle=\nft'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/=\n13487772\/male%20student%20dorms.jpg' \/><\/span><br \/><span class=3D'imgrig=\nht'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/=\n13487772\/female%20dorm%20construction.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The l=<br \/>\nong view on the left shows one cluster of male residence dormitories.  T=<br \/>\nhe blue and white ones (to the right of the picture) are older, whereas =<br \/>\nthe yellow ones are brand new, opening this term.  The above picture on =<br \/>\nthe right is a likewise brand new female residence dormitory.  There are=<br \/>\n two of these, right next to each other and actually, they are not far f=<br \/>\nrom our house.  However, the dorms all have fence compounds which cause =<br \/>\nthe students to enter and exit the dorm clusters from a certain directio=<br \/>\nn, and the entry to these female dorms is on the side remote from our ho=<br \/>\nuse.<\/p>\n<p>And what=<br \/>\n would any campus be without classrooms?<br \/><span class=3D'imgleft'><im=\ng alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/1348777=\n2\/PNG%20Studies%20building.jpg' \/><\/span><br \/><span class=3D'imgright'><=\nimg alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/13487=\n772\/PNG%20Studies%20building%202.jpg' \/><\/span><br \/><span class=3D'imgle=\nft'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/=\n13487772\/academic%20buildings%202.jpg' \/><\/span><br \/><span class=3D'imgr=\night'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/album=\ns\/13487772\/academic%20buildings%203.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b=\nr\/><\/p>\n<p>The =<br \/>\nlast two pictures show two of the long, low, blue and white buildings wh=<br \/>\nich house most of the classrooms.  These buildings are older, predating =<br \/>\nthe University to the Institute (trade school) which was on this locatio=<br \/>\nn previously and the Secondary school before that.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally=<br \/>\n, in the last picture, nearest the camera and to the left, are some of t=<br \/>\nhe Math and Computer rooms.<\/p>\n<p>=<\/p>\n<p>There are other things on campus=<br \/>\n, too.  There&#39;s the Friendship Library,<br \/><span class=3D'imgleft'>=<br \/>\n<img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/1348=\n7772\/entry%20to%20library.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><b=\nr\/><\/p>\n<p>the Staff Mess, where teaching staff and gra=<br \/>\nduate students dine,<br \/><span class=3D'imgleft'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'ht=\ntp:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/13487772\/Staff%20Mess%202.j=\npg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br\/=\n>the SVD Memorial Auditorium, seating 500 people,<br \/><span class=3D'img=\nleft'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/album=\ns\/13487772\/SVD%20Memorial%20Auditorium.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br\/=\n><\/p>\n<p>the student coffee house (&#038;quot=<br \/>\n;Kofi Haus&quot; in pidgin) &#8230; we haven&#39;t been in that yet<br \/><spa=\nn class=3D'imgleft'><img alt=3D'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/co=\nlx\/bcupp\/albums\/13487772\/coffee%20house%20at%20auditorium.jpg' \/><\/span>=<\/p>\n<p>and the camp=<br \/>\nus Market which includes a bakery.<br \/><span class=3D'imgleft'><img alt=3D=\n'' src=3D'http:\/\/thumbs.myopera.com\/sz\/colx\/bcupp\/albums\/13487772\/campus=\n%20market.jpg' \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><br=\n\/><\/p>\n<p>Okay &#8230; well, more pictures and more observations another d=<br \/>\nay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here I would like to conduct my reade= rs on a brief tour about the Divine Word University campus in Madang, Pa= pua New Guinea. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4oUw6-49","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jwilliamcupp.name\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}