Tuesday in the Jakarta Hotel (5/25/2021)

Day #4 of quarantine. Night #5 is coming up. I'm about ready for this to be done. It sounds like our COVID test results will be ready early tomorrow morning, which means that we'll be able to book our flight to Malang, Lord willing. I'm excited to start the internship and excited to see the Lord work. 

Going into this quarantine, I thought boredom was going to be an issue. Turns out I was wrong about that. The first two days here were fairly light in terms of activities, but the past two days have picked up. For each of the past two days, we've had approximately 4 hours of language, 3 hours of history/culture/lifestyle training, preparation for the next day's training session, and meal eating time. That leaves room for some quiet time, a nap, and a couple chapters in a book before bed.

The food has been good for the most part. I don't always know what all of it is, but for the most part I've adopted a "down the hatch" sort of methodology. The rice with almost every meal is a bit much. Tonight I had noodles AND potatoes, which was pretty exciting. 

Some random things because there's not much else going on...

• my journal/notebook pen isn't writing well in the humidity
• they bring 3 different sized plastic water bottles; my count so far is 12 small, 8 medium, and 4 large
• I'm saving up sambal (chili sauce) packets; they are made by Kraft-Heinz
• languages have a lot of words; I didn't realize that until I started learning a new language
• zip away pants-shorts are incredible