The 5 things I miss most besides people :)

1. Wine - It is impossible to buy wine in Indonesia. The only place you can get it is in posh restaurants where foreigners go and they charge an arm and a leg for a cheap bottle of wine. I'm talking a week of my measly earnings here for a bottle of the nice stuff. They are actually charging double the price of what it would be at home. Talking 20Euro for 10euro bottle of wine. It's the only thing in Indonesia that is expensive. Spend 1Euro on food but twenty times that on the drink.... tear tear - I need wine.... If anyone is coming to visit please please bring me wine :) Will anyone visit me??? Please do... Think it's a tropical paradise....

2. Shopping in peace - Everytime you enter a shop in Indonesia someone follows you around and tells you everything about the things in the shop, and they stand there and stare at you until you leave - so I never buy anything. The other day I was shopping for underwear in a department store and the ladies went into histerics laughing because they thought my boobs were big... and the bra I liked wasn't available in my size.... My boobs aren't that bloody big....

3. Walking along a street without some shouting at me - Sometimes I want to be invisible.

4. Cheap Dairy products, brown bread, food not dripping in oil....

5. Mosquito free Ireland.

It rains but it's still hot :(

So it's been a while but hey still alive and sweaty in Indoland. I was already to update with a lovely array of pictures but this computer doesn't know what a flash disc thingy megiggy is. Ahhh Indonesia :)

So rainy season has come, full force lastnight especially - don't think I have ever seen rain so heavy in all my life. Sadly it's still so friggin' hot during the day. I have to laugh at my students who tell me I am beautiful - honestly I must look like a wet rag dripping wet in front of their class. So since Ramadan ended I have been busier. I now teach 3 class a day - these classes are endless though 1 1/2 hours. Poor pets - don't know how the stick it. I have also been moved to the automotive department, where I am supposed to teach about cars in English - I haven't a bloody clue about cars so this is a laugh. "Miss, miss what's this?" "Emmm emm I don't know" They've got all these engine parts everywhere, - clueless. So I have been given a manual to learn the same stuff that I have to teach them. I also have to teach the teachers which is like teaching 2 year olds, they don't listen to me, they just constantly ask me questions. So yup at the end of the day, a cold splash with a bucket is delightful, followed my sleep. Lots of sleep :)

After my four days a week of teaching - I now have a proper home to go to. Myself and Pung have got oursleves a wee little house in Yogya (Yogya is 3 hours by bus from where I teach). It's very cute, and so cheap one years rent is only about 400Euro... cheap cheap - but afterall I do live off 25Euro a week! Pictures to come when I'm not on a computer from the dark ages.