People. Languages. Places. Food. Songs. Sights. Smells.... Basically, if it's new, it's a blast. : ) I got to go to a new part of the country this week. Originally I was going to make the trip by myself, but I am SO glad I didn't. Much more fun (and helpful!) with friends.
Waiting for the van to take us from the city to the mountains.
At 8 am my friends and I climbed into this taxi (above) that had a warning posted: "dilarang kentut" (breaking wind prohibited). Nice. :)
Man I love the mountains! And rice fields. What a sight together.
A local snack Bin Tei (corn soup), home-grown.
A new language. I encountered more than 4 this week. Not sure which this is. One of the languages kept reminding me of Swahili or something African. :)
As we wound around the country roads for 4 hours, so many simple things made me smile from the inside-out:
- streams
- mountains
- bright green rice fields
- flowers in yards
- bright blue skies behind thick white cotton clouds
- rain clouds
- a dog scratching its back in the dirt
- bougainvillea everywhere
- people gathered in a river
- children at play
Simple things. What I love here is how life happens right out in the open.
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