Civilization

This week was our trip to Bali to get our visas renewed. We love shopping there. Not only do they have most of the things we can find in America but prices are generally cheaper. This is the stuff we bought at the grocery store. Big items for us were oatmeal and the 12 bottles of insect repellent.
This time the beach and Bali was dirty. Somehow the tide and brought in a bunch of plastic trash.
This was our first Big Mac in 18 months. It actually tasted delicious. The price for the Big Mac and the Icee Coke was $2.77. This was in Bali. No McDonald's in timor-leste 
Back in dili this week a Holland America cruise ship came in. As we were leaving church today some of tourist passed by us on the sidewalk. I can remember when I was one of those tourists and wondering what it was like to live in a third world country
Some of the members of the new family that was baptized always join us in our taxi to come home. The taxi charges by the trip and not the amount of passengers so we load everybody in. In this tiny Nissan Sentra there were four of us in the backseat, two in the front passenger seat and then the driver. This actually is not so unusual for this country.


Cheryl got bit by a dog this week. It bled. Some of the local natives saw the incident and administered traditional first aid which involve rubbing some local leaves into the wound. Fortunately on the island there has never been a case of rabies.

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