Paula Louise Henriksen

Crocodiles and Kaleko (eBook, ePUB)

Dangers and Designer Clothes in the Solomon Islands

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Imagine landing in a foreign country during a peace-keeping mission. You move into a compound where your taps run dry and then the generator blows up, leaving you with no water or power. It is hot, the sort of heat you cannot imagine and you have responsibility for a $60 million aid program. This was Paula Henriksen's introduction to the Solomon Islands when she started a two-year posting for the Australian Government. Follow her funny and frustrating encounters with security guards, bank clerks and missing ferries as she started her new life in Honiara, the country's capital. Nothing was straightforward and time was an endless piece of string. Dangerous crocodiles lurked around every corner. She was tempted to run away...until she developed a guilty addiction!

The Solomon Islands took Paula far beyond her comfort zone, but offered unforeseen bounties. She returned to Australia lugging a pile of designer clothes and love for a country that had changed her forever. She hoped to return one day to swim with manta rays and meet old friends. Above all she hoped for the future of this beautiful country, in a world of economic uncertainty and climate change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Paula Henriksen
• Seitenzahl: 175
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780648234616
• Artikelnr.: 53575166

Autorenporträt

Paula Henriksen was posted to the Solomon Islands in 2010 as a Senior Program Development Specialist for the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID). This was her first overseas posting with AusAID, although she had undertaken many short missions since joining the Agency in 2005 as a health specialist. Previously, Paula worked for the Department of Health and Ageing and in the non-government sector. In 2013 the Australian Government merged AusAID into the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and in 2014 Paula left DFAT to devote her time to writing. Her short story An Unpredictable Land was published in the 2015 Stringybark 'Travellers Tales' anthology. She has two daughters and lives in Canberra .