Greetings to all my Family and Friends from Seoul Incheon International Airport,
I knew I would have hours, about 9 to be exact, here so I will catch up on my blog. The past few days have been a bit of everything, really fun, a little confusing, relaxing, frustrating but mostly great!
Saturday we left Lovina and traveled up and over the mountains again to Taro-Bali. It took about 4 hrs and we arrived at the Elephant Safari Park Lodge around 3 p.m. It is everything the brochures say, interactive, inspiring and incredible all rolled into one!
Upon checking in we found that there were a lot of activities included in our room rate. The interactive activities included such things as safari rides through the forest both at day and under the stars, hand feeding, touching and hand-washing. Besides our activities with the elephants, there were 30 on site, we also got spa treatments, and several meals. To meals and for safari rides they would call our room and say our elephant would be arriving in 5 minutes. We would step out our door and shortly an elephant would come around the corner to pick us up. The elephants at the park are from Sumatra which means they are smaller, have smaller ears and have only one little finger at the end of their trunk. They are really sweet. My favorite was Ola, just because we had her several times. Her trainer has been with her for 11 years. He said that she is just like one of his children. In the morning as we ate our breakfast on the restaurant deck we counted 27 elephants we could see. They really eat a lot and poop a lot. At night they are each chained to their little area. The elephants really have a pretty good life at the park.
When we checked in they gave us a schedule for our stay. It included elephant talent show, elephant Chauffeur Pick up from room, Night and day Safari Rides, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and spa activity. Each afternoon and at turndown at night they left us little treats like chocolate strawberries, cookies or fruit. I have so many great pictures and I will post them when I get home. I never thought I would be hugging an elephant in real life!! This was a perfect place to relax and unwind after the build.
We left the lodge on Monday afternoon and our driver took us to Kuta. We had reserved a room there for the night. There were two other build people there also. It was a real cute little hotel on the edge of a rice field. I have so many beautiful pictures I don't know how I will be able to pick out the best ones. We relaxed and shopped around town. From Kuta we returned to Ubud and hung out in a friends room until we caught our flight at 1:20 a.m. this morning.
Well, that brings me up to the present and almost to the end of a fantastic journey. I am sitting here in a relaxing area drinking a water and waiting, waiting waiting to take off for home at 6:15 tonight.
It's fun to travel but it will be so nice to get home!!
Love to everybody . . . Linda :)
A Voyage Into the Here and Now
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Friday, August 19, 2011
Saturday
Good Morning,
Today is the my day at Lovina. It has been a great experience but I will more than ready to come home after staying with elephants for the next couple of days. I am really looking forward to see what the next experience will be like.?? I have never been up close and personal with an elephant before.!
Yesterday at the work site we had house blessings at both of the houses and had a wonderful traditional lunch with the families who will be receiving the houses. There were touching words and a few tears, even from the families who have been working by our sides. We weren't able to finish our house, a two bedroom, but the house above, a one bedroom, was completed. They assured us that they will send us pictures of our completes house.
We had a little closing ceremony last night at the restaurant at our hotel and the affiliate people gave us all a handmade wall hanging and a certificate as recognition of the build. We have all made new friends around the world and, hopefully, we will stay in touch with some of them.
Well I will sign off for now. Our drivers, who have been with us all week, will be driving us to where we all need to go. I believe our drive will be around 3 hours.
I hope all is well at home with all of you and I will be chatting with you all later.
Love to all ...Linda :)
Today is the my day at Lovina. It has been a great experience but I will more than ready to come home after staying with elephants for the next couple of days. I am really looking forward to see what the next experience will be like.?? I have never been up close and personal with an elephant before.!
Yesterday at the work site we had house blessings at both of the houses and had a wonderful traditional lunch with the families who will be receiving the houses. There were touching words and a few tears, even from the families who have been working by our sides. We weren't able to finish our house, a two bedroom, but the house above, a one bedroom, was completed. They assured us that they will send us pictures of our completes house.
We had a little closing ceremony last night at the restaurant at our hotel and the affiliate people gave us all a handmade wall hanging and a certificate as recognition of the build. We have all made new friends around the world and, hopefully, we will stay in touch with some of them.
Well I will sign off for now. Our drivers, who have been with us all week, will be driving us to where we all need to go. I believe our drive will be around 3 hours.
I hope all is well at home with all of you and I will be chatting with you all later.
Love to all ...Linda :)
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Wednesday
Hi Everybody,
I haven't been able to get on the past couple of day but tonight, SUCCESS!!.
The past two days we have had regular work days at the site. The team I'm on has made great strides on our house. However, they told us today that we may not finish. Although disappointing, they assured us that, even if we don't finish, they will send us a picture of it completed. We mixed cement 12 to 15 times today, worked on the supports around the roof, layed the floors and also layed the porch area. I think today was the hardest I have worked so far because mixing the cement by hand, filling buckets and working on the roof are all really hard! I love it !
I will tell you a little more about the Habitat program we are working under. It is called "Habitat House for Widows". Habitat, together with village officers find a poor widow that needs help with safe housing. They have this program for widows because in Bali women have a weak position in the family. With the Habitat program, they help widows who live alone, have no income and who need housing. This program also requires the family to do sweat equity to help build the house.
The widow we are building our house for is Wayan Rebet. She is 70 yrs old. She is currently living in a wooden house by herself where she lived with her husband until he passed away. The 20 minute walk each way each day to her sons is a very difficult walk, even for us. She can't live with her son because there isn't room and they are also very poor. The house we are building is next to her son.
It is really fun working with the family. They have three children. One little boy is about 9 months old. He is teething and has been so uncomfortable this week. I have been able to make up to him and when he giggles he is so cute. All of the family works very hard with us.
We are very lucky to be staying at a very nice hotel now. It is right on the beach. Yesterday, before work, we went on a dolphin excursion. I didn't get any good pictures of dolphins but the sunrise was very beautiful! It is strange here because, since we are very close to the equator, we have 12 hrs of light and 12 hours of dark. Consequently, it gets dark around 6:30 and light around 6:30.
I don't remember if I told you before but our group of 22 are from all over the US and world. We have some 17 and 18 year olds and then there are 4 like me, in their 60's. All different backgrounds, personalities and abilities. What brings us all together is working toward one goal to make life better for another human being.
Good night to you all...miss my family and friends. Hope you are all doing well.
Love...Linda :)
I haven't been able to get on the past couple of day but tonight, SUCCESS!!.
The past two days we have had regular work days at the site. The team I'm on has made great strides on our house. However, they told us today that we may not finish. Although disappointing, they assured us that, even if we don't finish, they will send us a picture of it completed. We mixed cement 12 to 15 times today, worked on the supports around the roof, layed the floors and also layed the porch area. I think today was the hardest I have worked so far because mixing the cement by hand, filling buckets and working on the roof are all really hard! I love it !
I will tell you a little more about the Habitat program we are working under. It is called "Habitat House for Widows". Habitat, together with village officers find a poor widow that needs help with safe housing. They have this program for widows because in Bali women have a weak position in the family. With the Habitat program, they help widows who live alone, have no income and who need housing. This program also requires the family to do sweat equity to help build the house.
The widow we are building our house for is Wayan Rebet. She is 70 yrs old. She is currently living in a wooden house by herself where she lived with her husband until he passed away. The 20 minute walk each way each day to her sons is a very difficult walk, even for us. She can't live with her son because there isn't room and they are also very poor. The house we are building is next to her son.
It is really fun working with the family. They have three children. One little boy is about 9 months old. He is teething and has been so uncomfortable this week. I have been able to make up to him and when he giggles he is so cute. All of the family works very hard with us.
We are very lucky to be staying at a very nice hotel now. It is right on the beach. Yesterday, before work, we went on a dolphin excursion. I didn't get any good pictures of dolphins but the sunrise was very beautiful! It is strange here because, since we are very close to the equator, we have 12 hrs of light and 12 hours of dark. Consequently, it gets dark around 6:30 and light around 6:30.
I don't remember if I told you before but our group of 22 are from all over the US and world. We have some 17 and 18 year olds and then there are 4 like me, in their 60's. All different backgrounds, personalities and abilities. What brings us all together is working toward one goal to make life better for another human being.
Good night to you all...miss my family and friends. Hope you are all doing well.
Love...Linda :)
Monday, August 15, 2011
Monday
Greetings :)
Today was a special day! As I said earlier, we were invited to participate in a special event today. The first part was preparation of gifts to the Gods. This involved a lot of what we call "crafts" They make very intricate and complicated items out of banana leaves, palm leaves and flowers. I have taken several pictures and when I download them I will pass along. While this was taking place, the men and other women were preparing various foods. I have never seen, heard of nor eaten these things before. They definitely do not throw away anything. The chickens were prepared several different ways. Some parts were boiled over fire, the feet were trimmed and boiled for broth, the hearts were us for blood which they used to fry chopped chicken parts (?) with shredded coconut. Whole chickens, with head were put on sticks over an open fire pit. All the vegetables were boiled and they were delicious. They had prepared everything with special spices and I really couldn't tell you what all. They do use a lot of garlic. They had some kind of potatoes that were yummie and of course huge pots of rice.
After everythings was cooking and the gifts to the Gods were made we drove to the start of the trail and hiked back in to the Water Project Dedication site. The women came carrying gifts on their heads and a "Holy Man" came to bless and dedicate the clean water. The women and a couple men very carefully placed all the gifts and lit inscense sticks. It was very interesting, even though we couldn't understand a word of it. We then hiked out and went back to the lunch celebration.
The lunch celebration was great! There was probably 75 people there. Maybe 15 families with extensions. The water for the project will supply clean watet to 33 families. I ate everything except the dishes with blood and the stuffing from the fire roasted chickens. It was very good!
We didn't make it to the work sites today but will go tomorrow. Surprisingly, this all took up the day and we didn't get back to our hotel until 5 pm. According to the local Habitat people, this was a special priviledge and we are happy that we got to take part.
Tomorrow morning we are going on a dolphin excursion before we leave for the job sites. Some went this morning and said
Today was a special day! As I said earlier, we were invited to participate in a special event today. The first part was preparation of gifts to the Gods. This involved a lot of what we call "crafts" They make very intricate and complicated items out of banana leaves, palm leaves and flowers. I have taken several pictures and when I download them I will pass along. While this was taking place, the men and other women were preparing various foods. I have never seen, heard of nor eaten these things before. They definitely do not throw away anything. The chickens were prepared several different ways. Some parts were boiled over fire, the feet were trimmed and boiled for broth, the hearts were us for blood which they used to fry chopped chicken parts (?) with shredded coconut. Whole chickens, with head were put on sticks over an open fire pit. All the vegetables were boiled and they were delicious. They had prepared everything with special spices and I really couldn't tell you what all. They do use a lot of garlic. They had some kind of potatoes that were yummie and of course huge pots of rice.
After everythings was cooking and the gifts to the Gods were made we drove to the start of the trail and hiked back in to the Water Project Dedication site. The women came carrying gifts on their heads and a "Holy Man" came to bless and dedicate the clean water. The women and a couple men very carefully placed all the gifts and lit inscense sticks. It was very interesting, even though we couldn't understand a word of it. We then hiked out and went back to the lunch celebration.
The lunch celebration was great! There was probably 75 people there. Maybe 15 families with extensions. The water for the project will supply clean watet to 33 families. I ate everything except the dishes with blood and the stuffing from the fire roasted chickens. It was very good!
We didn't make it to the work sites today but will go tomorrow. Surprisingly, this all took up the day and we didn't get back to our hotel until 5 pm. According to the local Habitat people, this was a special priviledge and we are happy that we got to take part.
Tomorrow morning we are going on a dolphin excursion before we leave for the job sites. Some went this morning and said
Sunday, August 14, 2011
Sunday
Hi Everybody
Well...everybody, getting on line has been a chore! However, today the Gods are smiling.
I hope everyone is doing well.
I am in Lovina, a village on the coast. We are at the second hotel which is very nice. Since I have finally been able to get on to this site, I will just tell you about my days activities and about Gitgit, which is where the build site is. Gitgit is one of a sub district of a village, Singaraja District, in Bali Island. The main industry for the area is coffee and the spice cloves. It is growing all around our work sites.
Habitat for Humanity's greater goal is to empower families and communities. The program is designed to give teams such as ourselves an opportunity to experience the activity of building houses as well as social-cultural experience. Habitat for Humanity Indonesia Bali Project started in 2008, when the first housing program was implimented. Since its establishment, Bali Project has served a total of 227 families as of April 2011. Bali Project contines to develope avenues of constructing simple, decent, affordable housing for the purpose of decreasing homelessness by using various methods of housing construction with sensitivity to the procedures of the local culture. Our local affiliate members here:
Agnes - construction supervisor -
Kefi - construction supervisor
Clare - Program development Manager
are wonderful!
The money here is in Rupiah. As a new government has been elected, the Rupiah has slowly crawled up from an average of Rp 7,500 per us $1 at the end of 1999 to todays rate of around 8,400 per US $. It is confusing because of all the 0;s they add. For example, if you purchase something for 130,000 Rupiah, it would be around $15 in US.
Yesterday we were taken on a tour to Ubud. We went to the Monkey Forest, had "Crispy Duck" at a beautiful restaurant in the rice fields, went to a batik store and also to a silver store. We planned to do some shopping at a market but because traffic was so bad, we cut it a little shorter
Our day begins about 6 a.m. We eat around 7 and leave for the site around 8. The drive to the site is about 1 to 1 1/2 hrs. depending on the traffic. The traffic is unbelievable!! Many more motor cycles than cars and the roads are really only one lane wide, although they try to drive like they are two or three lanes wide. The road off of the main road, to the site, is only a car wide in many spots and they can only go 5 to 10 mph. We are building two houses at this site. One is one bedroom and one is two bedroom. The house are both for widow ladies with family. They family all help with the build, even the little one including a baby who isn't even walking yet. He helps separate the rocks for mortar.
I have found out I have skills that I didn't even know I have. I have been busy digging and building a septic tank! I have done a lot of digging digging and more digging. The trench needed to be about 3 1/2 feet deep. the hole was about 3 X 6 and was 4 feet deep. The saving grace is that the ground is fairly soft. I have also been laying blocks, pounding out rebar and cutting rebar. All very physical but I have been having fun doing it:). Our Habitat affiliate workers here say we are likely to finish both houses this week. I guess this is unusual so I am happy about this. It will be so nice to see the fruits of our labors.
Tomorrow, Monday, we are priveleged to be able to participate in a celebration for "Clean Water Resource Project". We will hike in to the water site and then hike out and go to a family's house where the women and some of us will help prepare food for the second part of the celebration. This will mean that we will only be working a half day tomorrow. However, the family will have been doing some work over the weekend so that will be fine.
Well...everybody, getting on line has been a chore! However, today the Gods are smiling.
I hope everyone is doing well.
I am in Lovina, a village on the coast. We are at the second hotel which is very nice. Since I have finally been able to get on to this site, I will just tell you about my days activities and about Gitgit, which is where the build site is. Gitgit is one of a sub district of a village, Singaraja District, in Bali Island. The main industry for the area is coffee and the spice cloves. It is growing all around our work sites.
Habitat for Humanity's greater goal is to empower families and communities. The program is designed to give teams such as ourselves an opportunity to experience the activity of building houses as well as social-cultural experience. Habitat for Humanity Indonesia Bali Project started in 2008, when the first housing program was implimented. Since its establishment, Bali Project has served a total of 227 families as of April 2011. Bali Project contines to develope avenues of constructing simple, decent, affordable housing for the purpose of decreasing homelessness by using various methods of housing construction with sensitivity to the procedures of the local culture. Our local affiliate members here:
Agnes - construction supervisor -
Kefi - construction supervisor
Clare - Program development Manager
are wonderful!
The money here is in Rupiah. As a new government has been elected, the Rupiah has slowly crawled up from an average of Rp 7,500 per us $1 at the end of 1999 to todays rate of around 8,400 per US $. It is confusing because of all the 0;s they add. For example, if you purchase something for 130,000 Rupiah, it would be around $15 in US.
Yesterday we were taken on a tour to Ubud. We went to the Monkey Forest, had "Crispy Duck" at a beautiful restaurant in the rice fields, went to a batik store and also to a silver store. We planned to do some shopping at a market but because traffic was so bad, we cut it a little shorter
Our day begins about 6 a.m. We eat around 7 and leave for the site around 8. The drive to the site is about 1 to 1 1/2 hrs. depending on the traffic. The traffic is unbelievable!! Many more motor cycles than cars and the roads are really only one lane wide, although they try to drive like they are two or three lanes wide. The road off of the main road, to the site, is only a car wide in many spots and they can only go 5 to 10 mph. We are building two houses at this site. One is one bedroom and one is two bedroom. The house are both for widow ladies with family. They family all help with the build, even the little one including a baby who isn't even walking yet. He helps separate the rocks for mortar.
I have found out I have skills that I didn't even know I have. I have been busy digging and building a septic tank! I have done a lot of digging digging and more digging. The trench needed to be about 3 1/2 feet deep. the hole was about 3 X 6 and was 4 feet deep. The saving grace is that the ground is fairly soft. I have also been laying blocks, pounding out rebar and cutting rebar. All very physical but I have been having fun doing it:). Our Habitat affiliate workers here say we are likely to finish both houses this week. I guess this is unusual so I am happy about this. It will be so nice to see the fruits of our labors.
Tomorrow, Monday, we are priveleged to be able to participate in a celebration for "Clean Water Resource Project". We will hike in to the water site and then hike out and go to a family's house where the women and some of us will help prepare food for the second part of the celebration. This will mean that we will only be working a half day tomorrow. However, the family will have been doing some work over the weekend so that will be fine.
Friday, August 12, 2011
Saturday
Hi Everybody!!!!
This is so exciting to finally get on line. We are leaving in a few minutes on an excursion so hopefully I will be able to get on again tonight.
At least i can let you know that I am alive and well :) The week building went fast and it is now Saturday. I have done things and have skills I didn't know I had, like digging septic tanks!
Will talk about the week later. I hope everybody is doing well and I miss you all.
This is so exciting to finally get on line. We are leaving in a few minutes on an excursion so hopefully I will be able to get on again tonight.
At least i can let you know that I am alive and well :) The week building went fast and it is now Saturday. I have done things and have skills I didn't know I had, like digging septic tanks!
Will talk about the week later. I hope everybody is doing well and I miss you all.
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Sunday, August 7, 2011
Sunday-Lovina
Greetings From Lovina ! A special "hello and hug to all the kidos- Alec, Emma G, Hannie Bear, GG., Nico and Marcus,
Today has been a travel day. After gathering, not easy getting all these women together who are scattered around at several hotels, we were bused to our new hotel in Lovina. The trip took around 3 hrs. We stopped on the way for lunch, which was very good. (I should add that for lunch both days I had chicken sete which is rice and skewers of grilled chicken with peanut sauce and some other kind of sauce. These are both things that I really like)
The ride was exciting because the traffic and driving puts even Seattle to shame. Its a battle between the autos and the scooters and cycles. Only saw one crash! The country side was beautiful, a lot of rice fields. The main industry here is coffee and cloves. I'm hoping to get some good coffee. Also, on the way up here we saw monkeys along the road, so cute. I took some pictures and I hope they turn out. I don't know about the pictures because I had to take them out the bus window.
All of our team is here now and we start our build tomorrow morning with breakfast at 7. The bakery where I'm typing this post is about to close so I'll talk to you all tomorrow and let you know how the first day goes.
Hope everyone is doing well at home.
Love
Linda :)
Today has been a travel day. After gathering, not easy getting all these women together who are scattered around at several hotels, we were bused to our new hotel in Lovina. The trip took around 3 hrs. We stopped on the way for lunch, which was very good. (I should add that for lunch both days I had chicken sete which is rice and skewers of grilled chicken with peanut sauce and some other kind of sauce. These are both things that I really like)
The ride was exciting because the traffic and driving puts even Seattle to shame. Its a battle between the autos and the scooters and cycles. Only saw one crash! The country side was beautiful, a lot of rice fields. The main industry here is coffee and cloves. I'm hoping to get some good coffee. Also, on the way up here we saw monkeys along the road, so cute. I took some pictures and I hope they turn out. I don't know about the pictures because I had to take them out the bus window.
All of our team is here now and we start our build tomorrow morning with breakfast at 7. The bakery where I'm typing this post is about to close so I'll talk to you all tomorrow and let you know how the first day goes.
Hope everyone is doing well at home.
Love
Linda :)
Saturday, August 6, 2011
Saturday -Evening 8:10 pm
Hi Everybody,
I didn't get a chance this morning to give you some interesting facts about Seoul. Hopefully, I will be able to send some pictures when I am on my own computer. Even though we all have been having trouble getting on the internet, to buy minutes is very reasonable here at the hotel It's $10,000 Rupiah for 30 minutes, which amounts to about $1 in US.
Seoul is very spread out and visitors often have trouble with the congestion and the smog. The city covers an area of 234 sq. miles and is the second most denseley populated city in the world just behind Tokyo. With a population of over 10 million people it's home to 25% of the country"s population. Seoul became the capital of Korea more than 600 years ago.
My eyelids are gettig heavy so I will sign off for tonight.
Take good care!
Love, :)
Mom
Grammie
Auntie
Favorite Sister
Friend
I didn't get a chance this morning to give you some interesting facts about Seoul. Hopefully, I will be able to send some pictures when I am on my own computer. Even though we all have been having trouble getting on the internet, to buy minutes is very reasonable here at the hotel It's $10,000 Rupiah for 30 minutes, which amounts to about $1 in US.
Seoul is very spread out and visitors often have trouble with the congestion and the smog. The city covers an area of 234 sq. miles and is the second most denseley populated city in the world just behind Tokyo. With a population of over 10 million people it's home to 25% of the country"s population. Seoul became the capital of Korea more than 600 years ago.
My eyelids are gettig heavy so I will sign off for tonight.
Take good care!
Love, :)
Mom
Grammie
Auntie
Favorite Sister
Friend
Friday, August 5, 2011
Saturday -
Hi Everybody !
This is my first opportunity to visit with you all. Internet is difficult, so far. I hope everybody is doing well. Today is Saturday.
After leaving Seattle, we got on a flight to Seoul Korea. The 11 hour flight was very good, just too long! We decided to be adventuresome and took a bus to the hotel. It was about an hour and twenty minutes but gave us a chance to see the countryside. Everything is very green and lush right now because this is the end of their rainy season. You probably saw in the newspaper last week that they had some serious flooding. We didn't see any evidence of it on our day there.
Our hotel was located in a very new location called Time Square which was fashioned after Time Square, N.Y. It was a Marriott Courtyard and was very nice. This will be the nicest place we will stay and we enjoyed it because we had been up for 25 hrs. They put us on the executive floor so we had easy free access to coffee, water as well as snacks. Breakfast was also included in our room. We had several hours and spent it walking around and going through the mall. We saw a couple fresh fruit markets as well as flower markets. It was a little challenging because no one speaks English! All of the signs and everything are in Korean. It does force you to use your other senses to figure things out. The whole time we were there, even in the Mall we didn't see even one other light skinned American. We found that interesting.
Last night we flew (7 hours) to Bali. It was another good flight, although we had heard that some previous flights were very rough. The hotel is very pleasant. It reminds me of hotels I have stayed in in Mexico and Antiqua. We saw a Starbucks on our way here last night and we are going there when I finish this post:) The coffee at breakfast left a little to be desired :) The hotel offers a free shuttle to the shopping area. We will be staying at this location, in Kuta, tonight and then will be moving to another hotel in Lavina, closer to the build site tomorrow.
The rest of our team will be arriving today and tomorrow. This is going to be such a fabulous experience! I am anxious to meet the other women and to get started on the build.
Hugs and love to my family and friends, especially Emma Grace, Drew, Bri and Carisa. Hope all is well at home and I will be talking to you again soon.
Love, Linda :)
This is my first opportunity to visit with you all. Internet is difficult, so far. I hope everybody is doing well. Today is Saturday.
After leaving Seattle, we got on a flight to Seoul Korea. The 11 hour flight was very good, just too long! We decided to be adventuresome and took a bus to the hotel. It was about an hour and twenty minutes but gave us a chance to see the countryside. Everything is very green and lush right now because this is the end of their rainy season. You probably saw in the newspaper last week that they had some serious flooding. We didn't see any evidence of it on our day there.
Our hotel was located in a very new location called Time Square which was fashioned after Time Square, N.Y. It was a Marriott Courtyard and was very nice. This will be the nicest place we will stay and we enjoyed it because we had been up for 25 hrs. They put us on the executive floor so we had easy free access to coffee, water as well as snacks. Breakfast was also included in our room. We had several hours and spent it walking around and going through the mall. We saw a couple fresh fruit markets as well as flower markets. It was a little challenging because no one speaks English! All of the signs and everything are in Korean. It does force you to use your other senses to figure things out. The whole time we were there, even in the Mall we didn't see even one other light skinned American. We found that interesting.
Last night we flew (7 hours) to Bali. It was another good flight, although we had heard that some previous flights were very rough. The hotel is very pleasant. It reminds me of hotels I have stayed in in Mexico and Antiqua. We saw a Starbucks on our way here last night and we are going there when I finish this post:) The coffee at breakfast left a little to be desired :) The hotel offers a free shuttle to the shopping area. We will be staying at this location, in Kuta, tonight and then will be moving to another hotel in Lavina, closer to the build site tomorrow.
The rest of our team will be arriving today and tomorrow. This is going to be such a fabulous experience! I am anxious to meet the other women and to get started on the build.
Hugs and love to my family and friends, especially Emma Grace, Drew, Bri and Carisa. Hope all is well at home and I will be talking to you again soon.
Love, Linda :)
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Bali, Indonesia
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