Sentani

We made it-we are here in Sentani.  Talk about culture shock!  What a difference from what we have been used to these last 9 weeks.

It is so hot and right now everything is so very brown-we are in desperate need for some rain.  There is no waterfall as it is completely dried up until we get some more rain.  The hostel has a few changes as well.  For some reason someone moved our small oven and so now it is no longer connected to a gas line so we cannot use it.  Someone came into our outside gudang and stole all our soap.  One of our bathrooms in our apartment was locked with a key and pulled closed so we can’t use that either.  Our bus was missing, and our cat is gone.  We had people watching her and feeding her but she is gone.  We walked around one area two times yesterday calling her and looking everywhere.  One of the gardeners said that he saw her there on Friday.  We will keep looking, but the kids are devastated.

We got here and there was absolutely no food.  Luckily, I had brought some boxes of Mac-N-Cheese with from America so we had that for brunch.  The house helpers said that they couldn’t finish the cleaning or do the mounds of laundry that we brought back with us from Bali because someone had stolen the soap and cleaners.  So after a quick nap, we ran to the store to stock up on everything.  And I mean EVERYTHING.

Tomorrow is Indonesia’s Independence Day and all the shops are closed.  So we knew that we had to get all the shopping done today.

The dorm kids come tomorrow.  One day to get ready…pray for strength, o.k.?

Here are some pictures from our trip:

Riding the ripstick and playing tag to stretch out our legs after the first leg of the journey, and sleeping on the hard tile floor at the Makassar airport. By this time, we were so tired we would have slept anywhere.