Here are some photos that I took today around Sentani. There’s the MAF hangar with three planes in it. That big one is our amphib 208 Grand Caravan that can land on land or water. Very cool huge thing... Marc was quite impressed with it. There’s an Indonesian girl mechanic that works for MAF, how cool is that?

The big yellow and pink building is the mini Superstore we shop at. (I can walk there from the compound) It has everything from stoves and fans to clothes to watches to hairdryers to motorcycle helmets to frozen sandwich meat to mayonnaise to diapers to shampoo, to margarine from Australia and cheese from New Zealand... you get the idea... This place used to be one floor and that floor was half the size of a current one. But a couple years ago they had a fire and then completely rebuilt the place.

The other photo is of a beetle nut stand. Remember the nuts that give you the nasty red saliva? I’m sad to see that in the photo you can see a student buying some.