*There is evidently some sort of ceremony going on across the road from us right now. They have the sound system cranked to maximum output and I can hear the speaker/singer as though he were in the same room as I am and I am in our office with the door closed! Except there is some distortion due to the volume being so high. I assume it is someone's birthday as they've sung the song "Panjang Umurnya" about four times now and the singer is horribly off key. The singing has been going on for about 2.5 hours now.... They love it loud here...
*Big news. Ice has a new boyfriend. Her last boyfriend was not a nice guy and her Dad was not happy about him either. He pressured Ice into doing things she didn't want to do... nuf said... However, this new guy, who Ice tells me, is a village person who moved out here in 2002. They've been friends for a while already and just started "dating". She talked with her Dad about it and he is happy because the guy is a hard worker. Then she talked with her mom (her parents are divorced) and she's okay with the whole thing because he can help her in her garden up on the side of the mountain. (she has a pineapple patch up there) I love how they determine whether or not he will do... I haven't had the pleasure of meeting this fellow yet but I sure hope I do get to!
*Big news again! The plane that has been stuck out in a village for a few months now has finally returned "home". It took some work for us to get a permit to fly the plane here as it did sustain some damage in the accident. Early this week a team of guys went out to the village and fixed it up enough to fly it here. This is a real answer to prayer as now they can get the plane back up in the air quite quickly and back to serving the folks here!