Everybody will tell you that there are only two seasons in Indonesia : a dry one and a wet one. However, they forget about the one in between - the windy one. For the last two weeks, it has been blowing a gale most of the time. There are a number of consequences to this - dust and roof noise. The first is self explanatory, the second relates to the fact that the tin roof on our house does not seem to be held down very securely and rattles and vibrates noisily right above my head ALL NIGHT LONG.
Yesterday, I was invited to a first communion party in a village called Waigete, about 20kms from Maumere to the east. While driving there, I was following a guy on a motorbike (semi-automatic type so he didn't need to use his left hand to drive). In his left hand he held a small plastic bag containing some eggs (this is how you buy eggs here, loose in a plastic bag). After a while he got tired of holding the eggs carefully in his left hand so he leant down and very carefully worked the handles of the plastic bag over the passenger footrest on the left hand side. All this while driving at about 45 km/hr, weaving in and out of other traffic, I'm just sorry I didn't have my camera !
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