Chapter 1, Page 13

Katie and I suffered through some Skyping today and ended up having to type to each other instead of talking because the connection was so bad.  But she had a lot to say and asked that I post some of her new pictures on the blog.  I don't have the details on many of the pictures, so your guess is as good as mine!

She did say she has spent a lot of time cooking and learning about Balinese food.  She made chicken satay with peanut sauce one night and said it was excellent.  She made a soup, that she made up, and she said it turned out wonderful.  She named it Balinese Gumbo.  It was made with chicken broth, rice, chile peppers, ginger, flour, spinach and chicken hearts.  She said the chicken hearts kind of melted into the soup and the fellow students who tried it said it was the best thing they'd eaten since they got to Indonesia. 

One day she and a friend wanted to go into town and they couldn't find a taxi, so a vehicle stopped and there were 2 flip flop salemen in the vehicle and asked if they wanted a ride into town.  They accepted, (I know!), and rode into town sitting on top of piles of flip flops.






These are the flip flop salemen.

Yet another adventure!!!

And this was a picture Katie took just for the Chili Family:


This next picture is of her house in Munduk Pakel, the village she lived in for about a week.  She said it was very interesting living there, but not something she'd want to do again since the water they bathed in was dirty water.





Katie room is to the left on this next picture:



The kitchen:



The kitchen stove:



The backyard pets:



The way to the rice fields where they harvested some rice:









This is a typical corner store:



This is the biggest waterfall in Bali:





She starts her job in a few weeks and is very excited for the opportunity.  She sounds much more motivated for culinary school as well.

...Just 49 more days!