Monday, May 28, 2012

Indonesia

Things we have learned in Indonesia:

  • Most Popular Phrase: ""Hello Darling!"
  • Most Popular time to be on the beach- Sunset
  • ""No" to an Indonesian shop keeper just means "Try Harder"
  • You can buy a pair of sunglasses for $2, you can get a meal for 2 people for $7 (2 drinks, appetizer, and entree) and you can buy an ice cream sundae from McDonald's for 50 cents
  • McDonald's serves chicken wings and rice
  • The beaches in Bali are beautiful and the waves are killer
  • People REALLY want pictures of Kayla & Me. They stop us on the street and ask to take our picture and some men on a beach just walked up and started snapping pictures of Kayla until I chased them off....literally.
  • ATMs charge almost $9 every time you use them
  • You feel like a millionaire when holding 100 US Dollars ($100 = about 1million Indonesian Rupiah)
  • Religious Rules- They passed a "Decency"Law which limits everything from what local tribes are allowed to wear to what tourists can (or cannot) wear on a Bali beach. Lady Gaga actually had to cancel her concert in Jakarta last week due to these rules.
 "The Jakarta situation is 2-fold: Indonesian authorities demand I censor the show & religious extremists separately, are threatening violence." @ladygaga




2 comments:

  1. Can you contact me about a possible article for the NB newspaper? Thank you.

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    1. Hello Ms.Taylor,

      I would love to talk to you about the article. My email is sarahredwine@gmail.com. We start volunteering today and I am not sure of the internet situation but will hopefully be able to find an internet cafe on the weekends. Please let me know of anything you need and I will try to get back to you as soon as I can.

      Thanks,
      Sarah

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