Jakarta First Impressions
We traveled to Indonesia with no expectations of what it would be like except for the Bali portion of the movie, Eat, Pray, Love and what we had heard from others. I knew of the Balinese Gamelan ensembles from my World Music Cultures class at BYU. That's it. Here is what we have discovered so far: - Indonesians are super nice, and tiny. Many of them that we have interacted with speak some English and are really friendly. Landon is an oddity here with his blondd hair, so we get lots of attention for that. It is not annoying, constant picture taking attention, but more just smiles and teenage girls giggling and cooing at him attention. And occasional hair touching, but nothing I can't handle. Two teenage girls approached me yesterday and asked if they could take a picture with me. I bet they were under 5 feet. They were so tiny! Most of the men are smaller than me and then poor Austin is towering over everyone. View out our window! - Compared to India, Indonesia is fair...