The first photo is of a guy we pass on the way to school every day. He has a compressor and a bucket of water and repairs motorbike tires all day long. As most people drive motorcycles here, he is kept fairly busy every day. The next photo is of a little "restaurant" or food stand that we also pass on our way to school. It is very typical of the food stands you find here. We never, ever eat food from these as our intestines wouldn't be able to handle it. The third unrelated photo is of our neighbours pond and potted plants. There are actually some pretty big fish in there and sometimes they jump out of the water to eat a bug. Until the neighbours harvest them for their dinner table...
Good news, we've found a bike we can rent on a month to month basis. It's a flashy red suzuki 125cc. It's actually what they call a babek. It has no clutch so it is quite easy to ride.
We went to Bandung Electronics Centre today. It has about 5 floors of cell phones, computer stuff, gaming stuff, and pirated dvd's and cd's. It's quite the place. We were looking to price out tv's which you would have thought a place like that would have... No dice. And when we left we went into the wrong angkot and ended up farther away than we had ever been before.... Thankfully, all you need to do is hop out and flag down the first taxi you see and tell him where you want to go. It costs a bit more but it is sure more reliable and much faster as they don't stop every 100 meters in the hope that someone else will get on....
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Aunt Frieda here
where are you????????????
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