Greetings from Aceh!

It's Thursday morning here in Indonesia, and it's a beautiful day outside.  Not a cloud in the sky - which is really rare during rainy season!  I'm working out in our district office for the week.  On one side, we're neighbors to a group of families who are still living in temporary baracks after the tsunami because people stole their land, and on the other side, there's a huge flooded rice field, where I watch the kids from the baracks go hunt for frogs every afternoon.  One of my favorite things about this office is that you have to take off your shoes to enter the office, which I'm convinced leads to a more relaxed way of working. :)  I've been training part of our team all week, and it is definitely a weird thing to stand up in front of everyone with no shoes on.  What a departure from life in DC! hahahahaha.

Hope all of you are enjoying time with family and friends this Thanksgiving.  I, for one, am sleeping in a staff guest house and have been living on tahu goreng (fried tofu) and a personal stash of apples, oranges and carrots for the last few days and am looking forward to being back in Jakarta soon. :)

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