Sahid Hotel Surabaya

Today is my last day in Surabaya, I have purchased my train ticket to Semarang. Prices are still up and I had to pay for the full fare to Jakarta. The ticket for executive class from Surabaya to Jakarta is 440,000. I am told that the prices will be going down on October 4th!!!

... the following day. On my way to Mount Bromo, my next stop, I met a guy who did the same as me and skipped town the next day so I did not feel that I was missing too much. Actual leaving Surabaya was the most enjoyable part of visiting the place. As with all places in Indonesia the main bus stations are on outskirts of town ...

... Il roulait super vite et il semblait vouloir conduire plus souvent a droite au lieu de gauche. Il ne tolerait aucun vehicule devant lui. Quelques depassement "cow-boy". Par contre un language routier difficille a saisir pour moi mais qui semble bien compris ici. Alors nos revoicie dans le monde civilisee a Sanur (Bali) pres de la plage que nous irons voir plus tard. Yessssss! Nous sommes revenue a la chaleur et l'humidite qui semble nous suivre. Bisouxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx France et Rejean

... is not worry about it. You just need to wear long sleeves and pants. Umm, I am not going to run in long sleeves and pants. So, I am taking the pills. Fun, fun! No weird reactions, which is good. Just interesting that a place I am traveling has malaria. This week, I have actually had a social life. Last night, I went out for surprise birthday celebration and Thursday night is ladies ...

... buy cool designer T-shirts, eat from the wide array of fast food in the huge food courts and amble with their peers. The guarded motorbike parking lots of such places, where all bikes for a fee of one ot two 1000 Rupiah bills are parked with surprising discipline, reach gargantuan proportions.



Writing this to you on a shaky and slow bus ride to Probolinggo, which is the changing point for expeditions to the Bromo volcanoes, which I plan to climb tomorrow.

... the money from this + extra fund raising events is used to pay the salaries of 2 Indonesian teachers who teach in the children's cancer wards of this hospital. We provide books and other materials etc. for them too. We were invited to visit in order to work out the best way of introducing some of our students to this charity. These are people without the funds to afford the better hospitals in town and one of our ...

Let's hope it is 3rd time lucky - the other 2 sites have failed miserably......by now most of you will have received our 1st impressions email or facebook posting ........well.......it is all still wonderful (including the kids and the teaching) and we are constantly having to pinch ourselves to believe we are here and being paid for it! We finish our 1st working week tomorrow .....and it is payday! I am going to try to download some photos........if it works stand by to be inundated!

... has given the most? I chatted with them for a little bit but my told them I had to leaven since someone was going to pick me up to take me back to my hostel. I bid my farewell and thank them for their hospitality. When I got back to my room, I discovered that my clothes were reek of sulfur. I took a shower and tried to wash the smell scrubbing my skin with soap. Then I remembered the workers whom I will never forget who had grown accustomed to the smell. I stopped scrubbing ...

... department store and bought Polo stuff because it was cheap there! On the 25th we dropped Heidi, Mike and my parents at the airport and it really was a family affair. Everyone went! After, my cousins took Kyle and I back to another mall to find some hello kitty stuff. It was about 5 cousins and 3 of my older relatives, and when ...

... from us until now. One other note about Surabaya, the streets resembled a real life version of Frogger. Crossing the street involved recognizing a small crack and making your way one car at a time, slowly and not so surely, across the road surrounded by roaring mopeds, motorbikes, and mini-vans. The first few times we would just find some poor old man and follow him across, using him as a buffer, if you will. You do what you've gotta do, all ...