This first post since arriving in Indonesia gives you a sense of our beginning activities. We arrived in Salatiga on Friday evening after an uneventful series of flights and airport negotiations. An MCC staffer picked us up at the Semarang airport and transported us to Jeanne and Dan's home where we spent two nights. Saturday we walked through the edge of Salatiga seeing rice fields, mosques, schools, many homes, and mountains amidst the haze. After lunch, we walked and bused through another part of town to learn the routes we will take to the university, markets, and eventually the MCC office, church, etc.
On Sunday we attended the 6:00 a.m. (yes, this is correct!) worship service at the GKMI Salatiga congregation. Following worship we ate breakfast in a local restaurant, moved to our house, and shopped in the food markets. We managed to navigate our first purchases, mostly on our own but with some much needed and appreciated assistance! We are beginning to settle and will have numerous orientations this next week followed by a homestay in a village and visiting the church and schools next weekend.
The weather is not as hot and humid as I expected although much warmer than recent temps in Harrisonburg. :-)
You may see pictures of our house below so you get a sense of our living environment. Since the photos did not load in the order I loaded them, you may want to start at the bottom with the heading "Our House in Salatiga" and scroll up.
We will post again as events of the week progress.
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