J oe came home tired from his morning shift at the supermarket. With a sigh of relief he sank into an armchair and opened his laptop.
“Dear Joe” the e-mail began. Who was this Tom and what did he want? Joe stared at the words blinked and read the message again. He jumped.
“Bernadine!” he shouted. “I just got a job offer from ExxonMobil!”
“Who’s ExxonMobil?”
Oh when would his sister wake up to the world around her? “It’s the big company that’s been drilling for oil at the Kikori River. They’re one of the biggest energy companies in the world up there in the Dow Jones index. They have branches in 180 countries and now they’re looking for ‘young ambitious college graduates who are familiar with the culture of Papua New Guinea.’ ”
