Jw Marriott Hotel Surabaya

As well as having our good friends Yasmin and Farook staying from Hong Kong, we also had 2 amazing surprises on our 40th (!)<br>After tennis and a swim, I was just emerging from the shower, when I heard David answering the door .... I just threw on a pareo thinking it was the house boys coming in to clean, and scurried past the hallway into the lounge, glancing at the front door ...

... which I also visited and then proceeded to the Arabic quarter. I was chased out of the famous and oh so very sacred Mesjid Ampel Mosque. I had a long sleeved shirt, long pants but did not have a head scarf!!! so I was swiftly escorted out as I tried to get into the cemetary where Sunan Ampel (one who brought Islam to Java) is buried. I guess every Mosque is different as I was guided around and allowed to take photos in the Mosque I visited in Jakarta.<br><br>

... day of four dives, we celebrated with some cocktails and lay in each others arms on the rooftop deck looking at a sky full of stars. 18) Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia: Riding the Northern Loop: Sarah, Mary and I had a wonderful day exploring the untouched beaches, rice fields, palm groves, clifftop outlooks, lush tropical forests and volcanic ...

... verticale a l'exterieur. Je n'ai pas besoin de vous dire que j'etais concentre sur le chemin. Rejean souffrait de nervosite au debut et avancait a pas de tortue, puis il s'est resaisie et a bien continuer sans de probleme. Nous avons du faire 3km sur le tour en montant et descendant, comme les montagnes russe et ce, accompagner toujours de cette bonne odeur. Paysage spectaculaire. Vers la fin, le sentier rappetissant dangereusement pour mes nerfs. J'ai fini a 4 pattes ne ...

... excuse to be able to talk to all of the teachers. There isn't really much to report. The holiday concert: I wanted to go through the program with you on this one. But, I keep leaving the program behind. So, there is Surabaya Symphony Orchestra who holds an quarterly concert. The concerts are about 4 hours long with 20 different songs by different groups. This was my first time going to the concert. I guess that man running it ...

... proud of their nations. It warmed my heart. It is always great to see the different sides of the students. The third part of the program is the dance portion. I took video and pictures of all the performances. I can not do it justice with a description. Just enjoy the videos. When I was watching the dancing numbers, I started to realize how ...

... is in addition to the bank sending officials to school to help us open accounts, the currency exchange man coming in here for us - we haven't had to step outside our apartment block...even for sport - we used the running track last night, the table tennis table on Sunday (as well as the pool daily of course) and eventually we will climb the 2 flights of stairs up to the roof tennis court now we have bought raquets.

... heard that I was taking photo and they wanted me to take their pictures. I endured several similar experiences there and my body was trembling. I heard the small voice again and this time told me to "Get the **** out!" I listened. I climbed slowly back to the top, stopping frequently to take photos of the workers who walked passed me carrying their huge load on their shoulders. These yellow gold acquired from the deepest abyss and brought back to earth on their bare flesh. I ...

... explicit reference ("Last Tuesday...") or by little helper words (just, already, almost, about to). The tricky part of the language comes from different status levels, much like Japanese. There are lots of different words for "you" depending upon the relative status levels of the speaker and the listener. RELIGION While most of Indonesia is Muslim, Islam never got a strong hold on Bali. Bali was converted to Hindu back a little later than 1000 AD ...

... I insisted on receiving actual tickets before I paid him. Anyway, it worked all right with the major exception that we did not end up on an A/C bus but were packed in on a local bus complete with people selling stuff in the eighteen-inch wide aisle in between stops in the cities, stifling heat and overall unpleasantness. Yeah, yeah, I know, the real experience and all. Uh huh, whatever. Glad to leave it behind. So, from there we got settled ...