Picture update

A few pictures from the last few weeks!

 Out having coffee with friends

 Celebrating 17. Mai!!

 Going to a local marked

 Learning to make a local sweets

 Girls night

 Having bbq corn on the cob and coffee while watching the moon and local fishermen fish at the sea side

 Getting up early in the morning (6am!) to walk with a friend

Learning more about cooking with local vegetables and spices 

Traveling

I still have no internet at my place (despite great efforts to change that..), so this blog is not much updated lately. But here are some pictures from my recent trip to a possible ministry location :)
(very few pictures since internet is still being a pain...)

We ended up doing quite a bit of medical work, listening to peoples health problems and trying to give some good advice. 

Hard to get people to smile in pictures, but a selfie situation will bring it out!

I look like a giant, but I was actually standing uphill from these ladies ;)

We climbed up from this valley to visit a friend from town who has moved back to the mountains

The mom and little sister of a girl I know here in town

New apartement and garden!!

I finally found a place to live!! It came with a tiny little garden with a bunch of chili plants, tomatoes and kangkung (a green, leafy vegetable). The other day some friends helped me clean it up. 

 One of them even climbed the neighbors tree and asked to chop down a few branches that were dropping a lot of leaves into my driveway. She used a machete ofcourse!

 Afterwards I got to play with the machete a bit as well, cleaning small branches of the large one

Then we dug neat rows to replant all the chili plants

 Voila! Hopefully the plants will survive the trauma ;)

 My green living room

 Squatty potty and bucket shower, good workout for the thighs for sure..

 My "dining room"

 Halfway outdoor kitchen. By that I mean that the walls dont go all the way of the the roof, its kinda like a built on part on the back of the house. There was no sink to begin with, but I asked if one could be put in so I didnt have to do my dished on the ground. I'm just not there yet with my indonesian squat.. :)

 Towards the front. Usually I keep the door in the front open so the wind can blow in through the front and out the back, natural temperature control. On average my apartement is just over 30 degrees inside the livingroom. I have an AC in my bedroom which I keep at 26 degrees and it feels pretty cold at night, I had to up it from 25 degrees cause I was freezing, haha, how weird is that. I would never be able to sleep if it was that hot in my bedroom in Norway

 Front 

Just for good measure, a picture from the other night, we went out to eat ikan bakar, barbequed fish. First you pick the fish you want, and then they prepare it for you with lots of yummy spices. 

Back in the tropics

After a couple of weeks of moms yummy food, cold weather, long evenings on the sofa watching movies and drinking coffee and seeing lots of sunrises and sunfalls, it was time to come back to the tropics!

First I got to hang out with my friend Jess in the capital for a couple of days

Then I headed back to my own island, where the new airport is still in the process of being made. This time they had added gates, so you no longer have to walk from the plane into the terminal in the sun. And they'd also added this interesting sign "don't sit or sleep on the conveyor belt" ;)

I got to attend my friends older brothers wedding and use my kebaya for the first time. Here with the little sisters of the groom

My friend has a phyton for a pet, and I got to see how they give it a bath using regular shampoo and a hose ;) Afterwards they rubbed him with bodylotion, haha

Ariel was really excited about playing with the snake, not a scared bone in her body

If you don't have a hair-tie, you can always use a snake :)

I've been learning about buying my own fish and preparing it, friend in a pan of oil or baked over coals

A friend from my old town came to visit and we went to walk by (and through :) a river and up to a waterfall

Interesting bridge to cross, it was a challenge to stay on the plank, with a passenger on the back!