*This is a mish-mash of fotos of our Friday afternoon/evening. Each year the kids from the elementary school put on a fun night. All the children of the national workers are also invited along with any other expat kids in the community who don't go to the school. Each class takes care of one or two booths. Tickets are super cheap and there's lots of candy to go around. The most fun booth is the one where you pay 2 tickets to have someone soaked with water... Always the most popular just behind the dunking booth...
*On the one photo, Mikah is trying to stay on the red line while looking through a pair of binoculars the wrong way. Harder than it sounds...
*Then for supper we went to the new pizza place, Papa Ron's, that just opened in the mall. It's a little sureal actually. I can't believe we have a pizza place in Sentani. The decor is Western and nice. The pizza isn't so western. It definitely has an Indonesian flair to it. You can order pizza with eggplant or broccoli on it... and of course, none of the meat has any pork in it... But there's melted cheese so who's complaining?? We went with our friends P and A to celebrate P's first solo flight here in Papua with MAF. A very exciting event as it is what they have been working 8 years for! So it was really fun to celebrate with them at the new pizza place!
* Today I got a call from the school that Christiaan wasn't feeling well. He had a fever and a headache and I'm sure you can guess what I'm about to write next... he is indeed the next malaria victim in our family. As I thought about why we are suddenly now all falling victim when for the last year we haven't had any cases, I remembered something that occurred a few weeks ago. I had gone to Abe with a friend and while I was gone some MAF workers came to replace some of our door knobs as the locks had already rusted (after only one year!!). They decided between the two of them, that our screen doors made far too much racket when they closed. So they adjusted the door closers so that the doors closed very slowly and softly.... Nice and slowly so that all kinds of mosquitoes can get in!!!!! I did explain this to them... In the Indonesian culture it is very rude to let a door slam... Hugo did adjust the front door so it closed a bit faster but still slower than before. So this evening he went around and made the doors all slam again. I hope this solves our malaria plague....
2 comments:
I hope so for your sakes...cuz it is not something that you want going around your family too often by the sounds of it. Hope Christiaan gets better soon.
Hi Erica, thanks for your post on our blog. It's nice to meet new readers :-) From the sounds of it, looks like you guys have the same problems we do regarding restaurants: not many of them and you cant eat pork. (difficult for us who come from pork farms :-)
I hope your malaria plague ends soon. I was so terrified of malaria when we first moved here, but because of our altitude we've been fortunate not to need bug nets or prophylaxis for daily life, only if we leave the high plateau. So we havent had an encounter with the illness firsthand (yet). I can imagine the stress of having to be constantly on guard against it.
Are you having nice summer weather these days now too? Isnt it glorious? :-) We're due for our end of term home assignment at the end of June/July, so i'm looking forward to almost a year of summer. :-)
Good luck with your newsletter writing.
jocelyn
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