March Highlights: Visit from Gio and Sarah!

Fresh off the bus!
Gio, DJ, Me, Sarah at a soccer game!

March Highlights: Visiting Peace Corps Vol. "GIO"

Harbor near Gio's House
Full Moon!

Get your boiled corn

Gio and I and her colleagues!

February Highlights

Lunch with my students
My colleague "Goli"

My colleague "Aris"

Hanging with the band

My friend's band

Local Monks

Local Buddhist Monastary

Local Hindu Temple

Indonesian Cheeseburger....mostly bread

January Highlights: Bengkulu, Sumatra

Morning Beach Walk!

Just wanted to try...

January Highlights: Bengkulu, Sumatra

Students in Embassy Program

Awesome performance of Bengkulese Drumming

January Highlights: In the kitchen with the Ibus

Ayam=Chicken

Making sambal=chili sauce

Going to pick leaves to spice the chicken

Cassava and bananas from their garden

Cleaning the chicken

Mixing the chili with fish

Birthday in Bali

Seminyak Beach, Bali

Birthday dinner at a "night market" off the beaten path

Our dinner

"rambutan" fruit (literally means "hair") is yummy!

When close to the ocean...eat fish!

Eat Clams!

Birthday dinner!

Beach side

Sweet

Looking touristish

Hindu prayer sacrifice

Rice fields nearby

Sweet bikes

Lana looking in on mini-karate master

Shopping street

Quaint cafe

Stylish boutiques..millions of them

Awesome carvings

Hindu Temple

Irony

Meeting a balinese man and getting a secret tour

Down the secret pathway

To the restaurant that serves pig...not found among the Muslims

Hindu calendar

This is a great, "Welcome to Bali" ad

Making friends

Making cool surfer friends

Watching him swim away

Knowing Danielle Steele could make a novel about this man

Rules to restrict "drunken, rude, chaos" at a hotel

So many dogs in Bali

Sign says: "I used your birthday gift to fly to Bali"

Posing with my Indonesian dictionary

Sweet women trying to sell me everything

Sweet hotel