The Cockroach

Disclaimer: This story might be a little bit grouse, but it is true and needs to be shared. I was going to the bathroom at school this morning and as I was getting some toilet paper out of the dispenser a cockroach came with the toilet paper and landed on the floor by my feet. I screamed a little and then went about my business. I do not know if I will use that bathroom for a while now. I am a little scared that it could happen again.

Ice Skating in Indonesia

This weekend I went to see my friend Lindsey in Jakarta and we went Ice Skating. Who knew that you could even do that here? It was not busy at all, and we learned how to do some really cool tricks. We also tried to create routines like real figure skaters do to the music that was playing. One more thing, I did not fall. After we were done we went to an Arcade and I got us some free bumper car rides. We also played air hockey and a motorcycle game. I am better at riding a motorbike in real life rather then on a game. (If that tells you anything). On Saturday we planned out our summer trip to Australia. It was a great weekend.

So excited about getting to skate.


We are doing Ballet moves outside of the ice skating rink.

I like to Read it

At school we had book week. Our theme was "I like to read it" We did different reading and writing activities each day. On Monday I did a rap to 'I Like to Move It' from Madagascar but I changed all of the words to go with reading. We had an author come, pajama day, buddy reading with older and younger grades, and character day. Students and teachers could come to school today dressed as any book character they wanted too. Most of my students came as princesses. Annie and I decided that we would be Thing 1 and Thing 2 from The Cat and the Hat by Dr. Seuss. Here are some pictures of what I looked like, as well as my students.


After school I went to dinner at one of our office boys houses for dinner with Josh(a.k.a The Great White Hunk). Harun- the office is fairly flamboyant, so we were pretty excited to go. It ended up being pretty fun. Josh and I decided that he is a lot more calm when he is at home. This is the four of us at Harun's house after dinner. If you notice, I am a lot taller then everyone. The students at school call me the giant.

Baliversary

This past weekend we had a long weekend so I went to Bali on an anniversary from the time that I went a year ago. Does that make sense? We called it a Baliversary. I went with Mark and Alexis. We spent our time at the beach and the pool. It was really beautiful weather. One night we went to Tana Lot which is a place to go and watch the sunset. It was so beautiful. As we were watching the sun set someone asked if they could take a picture with us. We said okay. 15 minutes later we were done with the picture taking. One lady gave me a bracelet because I took a picture with her. She said, "I want to give you this. Don't worry it was not expensive." She then had a another person take our picture and then he printed and framed it right away. How great is that? After lunch on Monday, Mark went and bought Alexis and I a rose for Valentine's Day. So precious. The best part was that I received it as I was sitting by the pool. Ray asked me to marry him but I said no because I did not think that my mom and dad would approve of me marrying a man that rents chairs on the beach for a living. Best Baliversary ever.

The roses from Mark in a Bintang bottle.


Mark and I being artistic at Tana Lot.


The awesome bracelet from the picture lady.


The sunset off of Tana Lot.


The Beauty and the beautiful at Tana Lot.

The Bellybutton and The Rainbow Giraffe

We had an art night at our house last night because we wanted to have people paint on canvas and then we are going to hang them up in our house so that our house has some decoration in it. It was a lot of fun and we got to hang out with some people that we do not normally hang out with on a regular basis. There are some pictures from that night. One of the paintings is entitled the Bellybutton, it is really cool. Another painting a 5 year old did and it is of a giraffe with an avocado on it's back.


Last weekend we drove our motorbikes into Lippo and went to a 70's party. My dress was more like a prairie home extravaganza dress not really from the 70's but I added some beads and called it good. I love any reason to get dressed up in a ridiculous outfit and have a party. I have also added some pictures from that night and from our journey home. We had to stop at a Bengkel (mechanic) and get one of the bikes fixed so there is a picture from that as well. Whenever we are driving, all of the men tell me to be careful and to be safe. They do not tell anyone else. I don't know if it has to do with the fact that I was wearing a cardigan on the last trip or what.