Today was a quiet day at home. I showed my Ibu how to make my chicken enchilada recipe. She has in the past worked mostly for Korean and Indonesian people and loves to learn to cook new things.
Our neighbours never get sick of playing with and talking about our kids. There is this absolute fascination with our white skin. I’ve actually got darker arms than one of the neighbour ladies. But they are always careful to stay out of the sun. They are also very fascinated by Aidan and Brynne because they are so much bigger than Indonesian kids are. One of my Ibu’s is very proud because her husband has very white skin and so her daughters do as well. In fact the name that they call us, buleh, actually means “white skin.” The other main fascination is how much things cost. They are always asking us how much things in Canada cost and how much we paid for some of the things we’ve bought here, how much we pay to rent our motorcycle that sort of thing. Well, there’s always something to talk about…
Today our other neighbours got their son-in law and friend over to help them dig their well deeper as they haven’t had water for over a week. What a messy business! Those guys were covered in mud from head to toe! But they were able to get to some more water. See photo (before they were all dirty)… The second photo is of Brynne and the nieghbour girl Sri. The third photo is of Brynnie learning to walk, with Ibu Tati, down the gong to our house...