What I've been up to lately

This is what I've been doing the last 3 weeks:

Writing a lot of papers

Practicing new vocab

 Trying to explain where Norway is

 Studying grammar. Line nr. 7 is for my little brother btw. google translate it of you're curious ;)

 Hopefully learning from my mistakes ;)

School!

Here are some pictures from my language school, where I spend several hours every day

 This guy hangs out in the parking lot

Just to give you a picture of how you get your antibiotics from the pharmacy here, hopefully they got it right ;)

Swimming

Today I woke up to poring rain, which doesn't usually happen. But then around 11 the sun came out and it was so nice we decided to run to a pool while it was still out (sunshine only lasted for like 2 hours before it started poring again by the way). However, I still managed to get a bit sunburned...

 This amazing pool with a view is only about 10 min drive from my house. The temperature in the water was like a regular summer in Norway temperature

 Then we went for some lunch on the way home

Goodbye party and exploring

Yesterday we had a goodbye party at our house for some people who are moving on to other islands

 It included a lot of snacks and drinks! 

 This little one was really fascinated by the guitar and drum

 Saturday seemed like a good day to go exploring a bit outside town and taking pictures. Me and my friend took of in the morning in the rain, figuring it would probably stop soon enough. But it didn't, so we didn't get too many photo opportunities. We ended up going to a Goa Maria, which is a place catholics go on prayer walks. This is where some spring water comes out of the rocks, considered to be holy water.

 They had some cool bugs located on some orchids under a roof, so thats where I did most of my pictures ;)

We topped it off with some nasi goreng jagung with little, salty deepfried fish and warm lemon juice. Not bad at all

Holiday

Today is a public holiday (celebration of the birth of Muhammed) so school was out, and we went for a drive outside of town up into the foothills.

 Some people worked in the rice fields

 Some were chasing the chickens and ducks away from the grain that was spread out in the sun. No one was watching these ones though, so the chickens were having quite a meal

 Some people were fishing in the rice fields. Often they get eel

 This is how some of the roads looked, really fun to drive!

 Afterwards we hung out a bit with some neighbors

They all love Alia of course :)

Finally some pictures!

From the last week:

 Meeting new neighbors, and introducing them to their neighbors

 Seing some interesting new pringles flavors

 One of my teachers correcting my paper...I did close to 20 hours of homework last week, including writing 3 papers

 Watched a buy butcher and clean out eels at the new grocery store

 My favorite baby is getting ready to start walking on her own!

 From my neighborhood

 We went to a baby weighing and measuring in the new community house. It is held every month and all the kids up to 5 years get weighed and measured and given some food for a very small sum of money.

 This one was not so happy with the arrangement