Hike

Today some guys came and hung up the fallen power line. In the meantime however, our phone line has become disconnected. The fun never ends here...

Yesterday we went on a hike up Mt. Cyclops, the mountain directly behind our house. We walked from our house up the mountain and about 45 minutes later we were at the water fall. It is a really neat spot with a couple pools of water for the kids, big and little, to play in. The government is actually making a small dam for drinking water a little further up, see photos, and all materials are brought up the mountain by hand... The workers live in those tarp houses. It was a really fun hike although a couple of us got some burnt skin out of it...

I just wanted to comment on garbage... Back home you separate your garbage. You have your blue bin for recyclables, i.e. tins, milk jugs, newspaper etc..., you have your clear bags for leaves/grass and you have your other garbage. Here we also separate our garbage. We have a blue pail for anything and everything remotely edible for Icelina’s dad’s pig, we have a blue rubbermaid for anything and everything that we can burn and then we have our other garbage. We don’t know where that garbage goes... We leave it out at night once the bag is full and Pak Yoben takes it away somewhere... we don’t even want to ask....

Wishing you all a happy Sunday. Selamat Hari Minggu!