more Elephants

I didn't kill him

Cute, but... BIG!!!

Aw, it's a baby :-)

My new pet!

Elephant run

you know how after riding horses you're a little sore for the next couple of days? Well I just rode an ELEPHANT without a saddle up and down a hill for an hour. Ow.

Funny

Kids these days...

Dogs just can't help themselves...

You know those "Self" shots you take with digital cameras nowadays? This is pretty bad aim! :-)

traitor

so, this bank team beat us Bulek 8-0 a month or so ago... last week the manager called me and my friend Paul and asked if we wanted to play WITH them one night... I hope the U.S. government realizes that this does not go against my country! :-)

Korea!

One's a new friend, Brian, who I've played soccer with here.

The other is a very old friend who I haven't seen in forever but a mutual short Chicagoan friend told her I was here and we should connect while she worked her summer internship.

bad medicine

as far as I know the screw is supposed to be all the way into the bone after surgery, right????

Full Moon

Sunrise... sunset. Sunrise... sunset.

Camping

Good food

Indian:
spinach, black bean dal & butter chicken
with nan of course

Dessert (w/coffee):
Guava sherbert in coconut shell laden w/strawberries

or: melted chocolate cakes w/ creme brulee sauces

Lake Toba

Open up the heavens

and let your glory fall

random birthdays

hi

if you've got a way to solve redeye, lemme know... :-)

old friends

make funny pictures


and good ones too

Bulek FC

From left to right: Peru, U.S.A., France (via Senegal), (above) Australia, (below) Iraq, Sudan, Sweden (via Estonia), Ireland, England

missing are folks from Wales, Sierra Leone, Canada, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, other parts of Indonesia, and Holland.

17 nations represented on one football (that's soccer to you Americans) team in Banda Aceh (a.k.a. by me as "Tsunamiville, Indonesia")

p.s. In Indonesian the correct spelling of the word is "Bule" translated as "foreigner" (but we spell it the local way, rightly or wrongly)

Different

This picture here, this is definitely not Aceh. After the wedding I went on to Jakarta to visit some friends. And I stopped at a mall. A fabulously decadent mall. I just had to get my picture taken.

Danau Toba

massively large lake in the middle of north Sumatra, 2 hours outside (to the southeast, I think) of Medan...
beautiful, even at 7 AM when you've just woken up on your way to a wedding and left at 4 in the morning to get there (except, btw, I'm still 3 hours from my destination! :-)

Speedbumps

Here in Indonesia they are known as:
"Polisi Tidur"

What does that mean exactly?
"The Police are sleeping, but the speedbump here - completely overbuilt at 6 inches high and will destroy your car? - will catch you!"

women are always right

a picture says a thousand words. So does a cover. But its the sub-story that always rings a little less hollow...

Future Rocket Scientists of America

JOIN THE CLUB!!!

Let them eat cake...

SO CUTE, she takes Marie Antoinette SO seriously!
(she's 2 today)

No Photos!!!

She hates the paparazzi at a VERY young age

Ohm (Uncle)

these are some of the cutest kids, daughters of one of the lecturers here where I teach.