My birthday is on Wednesday and it won’t be much of a hoopla as it has been in years past. I have a few gifts to unwrap but that’s it. Just low key. Usually they throw people off the dock for their birthdays so I am trying to keep it under the radar so I don’t get tossed off the dock either! Xraying the oysters has been going well this week. Had a small report due too. We also had Thursday off for some holiday. Was windy and rainy in the afternoon but no worries to me it was nice to sleep in and have a relaxing day. Sugi will leave next week for Lembata to prepare for operations there. I will be running the xray and operations show here for a month. Hoping she can come back and forth from Lembata but she might have to stay there as its expensive to fly her to and fro.
I finished the Hunger Games. Great book! Watched the movie with Tomek and it was a horrible copy from Bali recorded in the theater but the movie was still crap. It didn’t do the book any kind of justice. You just didn’t get the same feeling as reading the book. But I did speed through that book so I will take a break before reading the next one. Now I am reading a book by the author of the Other Boleyn Girl. Its pretty good so far.
I also finished crocheting my beanie. Turned out pretty cute. Had to do it two tone orange and blue (War Eagle or Go Gators! lol!). I was searching for a scarf pattern on youtube and I found a great one. Has all these hard double crochet stitches, but I did it step by step with this woman and I figured it out! I’m a regular crochet pro now! The scarf is going to be pretty awesome! There is a pic of the woman on the front of the yarn label with a scarf on and the instructions are on the back of label. So I need 2 balls of the stuff to make a scarf! Dang it! I’m still a newbie at this! Frusturating I won’t be able to finish it, but I will do as much as I can and then finish it in August on my next trip back to the states when I can buy more yarn.
News on the small sailing canoe I am trying to buy. I have seen the perfect one that I want just off our back yard and I saw a young boy in it today. A sailing canoe is called a kapal liair it turns out. So I think I managed to figure out that this boy’s dad made this canoe and he will ask his dad to come to the site and ask for me so I can see about him making one for me. Baby steps! Has been really windy here in the afternoons and perfect sailing weather. No one really sails for fun, they just sail to get to their fishing spot or to get across the bay quickly.
I did yoga this morning on the porch. It was so nice and peaceful this morning. Mutiara kids this afternoon. Only about 20 so manageable for just Tini and I. I did this great antonym lesson that I thought was a good idea. We went over words like big and small in Indonesian and English. Its hard because it’s a good mix of kids older than 8 and younger than 5 so the little ones struggled and the older ones kind of got it. Went over a lot of words and then they got to draw a picture explaining 2 words. Like tall and short, big and small, or thin and fat. About a handful of kids got the picture drawing. The ones that did, did a good job though. One girl is really good and drew a really great detailed picture but I guess she won the prize last week too, so I had to skip her this week! I gave this other little girl a set of legos for the winning drawing and she was really happy. We tried to play freeze tag after the drawing but it was some weird Indo version of freeze tag I don’t really get. More like Red Rover, Red Rover, Send ___ right over game. Still they had a fun time I think. Will have to think of something else easier for them next week!
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