Moving...Again

I was feeling like I was in the same place for to long so I decided to move again. Not really... but kind of. We are getting a new teacher in Grade 4 and they needed a place to put him. They asked if we would move into a bigger house and give him the smaller house where there are more single people on the street. We said yes, so Brittany and I are moving into a 5 bedroom 3 bathroom house. It is just like the first house that I live in only on a different street. This will be my third move since I have moved to Indonesia. We should be moving this Thursday. Yippee.

Happy Birthday

On Saturday the 27th of November it was my birthday. I had a great day of celebration. We started off at Starbucks to start off the morning. We went to a mall and went to an Eiger store where I bought a raincoat for my backpack. It rains a lot here so I thought that it was kind of necessary. Then we went to an expatriate grocery store where I bought chocolate chips, and other things that I cannot normally get at the regular grocery store. After that we went to Kemang and had Mexican food at a place called Amigos for lunch. After that we went to Chic Mart to buy some Christmas gifts. Since it was Saturday we went to church. After church we went to Outback for dinner with a whole bunch of people from church. It was quite a day to celebrate being 23. Here are some pictures to commemorate my day.

Banana Cake Road Kill

As I was driving to school this morning I put some brownies, banana cake, and coffee on my clip on the front of my bike. As I was driving I noticed that the coffee started to come loose from the clip so I quickly grabbed it and stuck it between my legs and continued to drive. Thirty seconds later the banana cake fell to the road to become road kill. My first thought was, "that is amazing cake I have to stop and get it." My second thought was, "that is good tupperware and it is hard to find here." I pulled my bike over to the side of the road and ran back to save the cake from becoming road kill. The rest of the trip the cake made is safely and now the rest of the teachers are enjoying it.

Goat Slaughtering Holiday = Holiday in Bali

We had a 5 day weekend so some of my friends and I went to Bali. We had a great time. We went to the beach, went shopping, and went on a bike tour of the villages, rice patties, and Hindu temples of Bali. It was so much fun. The beauty that was surounding us was amazing. God is so creative.

As I was sitting on the beach one day reading my book two women thought that it would be a good idea to come and take a rest on the back of my chair. As you can see I continued to read intently.


The rice patties.


A big bunch of bananas. As we were waiting for the rest of our bike group to get with the program we had a photo shoot with a large bunch of bananas. They were heavy.

I was going to add more pictures but it was taking way to long to upload and I need to go to bed. I have to be a teacher tomorrow.

Ding Dong the Rat is Dead

For those of you that have been following the story of the rat I have some very exciting news. The rat is dead. On Friday night we got home from the mall and the note from our helper literally said , "I threw away the rat." We went upstairs to check out what happened and there was some blood, rat hair, and elephant glue on the floor and the railing. What we are hypothesising happened is that the rat ate all of the poison that we had laid out and exploded on the elephant glue. Our helper cleaned up most of it up. I got the joy of cleaning up the rest of it. I have pictures but I did not want to be too graphic. This is a G-rated blog you know. Then this weekend we got a sonar noise making device that will keep the bugs and rats away. No more rats for us. It was very exciting day for us.