POTD

"What is a potd?" you may ask.  Since coming to Jakarta, I've been overwhelmed with little everyday things that I want to share with my family back home.  I started out by trying to explain them in emails.  I would even make daily lists of all the crazy, curious, and comical things I wanted to tell them.  Well, I soon got too busy for that and since the I'm blessed with having a data plan for my phone - I thought I'd start sending a picture each day of something interesting that I had come across.  Thus, the potd (picture of the day) was born.
I'll just give you a sampling of some of my potds...

Found this store at the mall.  Mmmm, nothing beats fresh corn in a styrofoam cup with ketchup on top!  

Youth lunch

Rick and Kathy brought WI cheese back to Indo with them!

They bring me all kinds of luxuries!

This small box of rice "bubbles" is a mere 174.000 Rp ($18.79).  Needless to say, I stick with corn flakes (no, not Kellogg's)

The perfect day off

I got to attend a church retreat as the "nanny".  This is what I did with my 30 minutes of free time.

Sundays are the one day with little to no traffic.  Even on the bus!

A day at a friend's infinity pool on the roof

Just a few of the animal-parts-on-a-stick that I have to choose from at lunch time

Daniel, fellow youth worker, really fits in

I'm forever on the lookout for 4+ people on a motorbike

One of the Muslim holidays involves sacrificing a goat.  You can find them on  almost every street corner around that season.

These are all nannies waiting for their 'kids' to get out of Sunday school.

Lots of fun tshirts with nonsensical sayings in English

How to take inventory in Indo

Ever been to a movie theater concession stand that had calamari or fried sausage on the menu?

This is SO Indo.  I got in this elevator on the ground floor (labeled SL here).  What follows?  No, not 2nd floor, but LG (lower ground), then G, UG (upper ground), and then?  You guessed it! 1st floor.  Surprising part is, there is actually a 4th floor.  Normally, there is no floor that ends with 4 and no 13th floor.  Bad luck

You've heard of kopi luwak?  The coffee that is made from beans which have been digested by the luwak (a furry opposom-like animal).  $33 per cup

Rafa, one of the students where I take Indonesian lessons

For some reason, this mess of boys was being chased down the street by a man with a big stick

Went to an angklung performance by one of my teens

MOM!

Mom playing in a waterfall after a long hike

Christmas day campfire with s'mores

Common sight in a public restroom

A day at my pool

My roommate, Jessica, and me enjoying a bowl of mom's beef stew with dumplings 

One of my teens skyping with her role model, Bethany Hamilton (the real 'soul surfer')

First time playing piano in 8 months!

Chinese New Year decorations in the malls

My roommate and my mentor (both from Germany) inviting Mom to have a piece of cake for her bday

This is one time when we don't ask why

Ann speaking in our youth service (they loved her, of course)

Ann driving me around on a motorbike in Bali

After snorkeling and kayaking through a mangrove forest, we stopped to enjoy the view of  Mt. Agung volcano and have a warm coke

She let me do the driving this day

They were going faster than I was

Warm waters of Bali