Old vs. New

Things we miss about Bandung:
Our friends
The easy grocery shopping
The great restaurants
The lower prices…
The Jump’n Gym
Less mosquitoes
Riding angkots…
The lack of humidity

Things we don’t miss about Bandung:
Going to school every day
The loud mosques
The concrete jungle we lived in
My incredibly tiny kitchen
Baking in a box above the kompor
Being woken up at 5:00 by the sound of the neighbours sweeping their walkways or the neighbour boy yelling for his mom or sister…
Riding angkots

Things we love about Papua:
Grass around our house, real genuine grass!
Being able to ride bikes..
No loud mosques nearby
Drinkable tap water!
Great neighbours
Great quiet neighbours
Sweet pineapple from the bush in front of our house
Working on real airplanes!
Working in a real kitchen with a real oven!
The possibility of going to the beach!
Not needing to ride angkots to get places…

I know I wrote riding angkots in both categories about Bandung. They were always interesting to ride on as you never knew who you’d be riding with, but on the other hand it always took forever to get anywhere.

The tap water here on base is drinkable! This is so wonderful after a year of having to be super careful about the water in Bandung. There is actually a water spigot on the edge of the base near the front gate. This spigot is available to the public and whoever wants can avail themselves of fresh clean drinking water. MAF has been doing this for a while and has seen no drop in the water table on base. There has been a new well dug on our new property but the water has not yet been tested. Apparently it looked really good and the well was quite deep.