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Dear Friends,
I apologize, but to save myself from any further cursing and swearing, I will not be putting anymore pictures up while I am in Indonesia. I assure you that I have been taking pictures and that there are many I think are quite good and would very much like to show you. However, I am going to wait until I get home and can sit on my couch with my laptop and a nice high speed wireless connection, and not sitting in a sweaty, steamy, internet cafe in Sumatra waiting hours for pictures to upload. This is not how I want to spend my last few days in Indonesia.
The time in Sumatra has been very good, very different, and very eye opening. The culture here is totally different than Bali. Culturally, you might as well be in the Middle East. There are more mosques here than there are churches in Alabama, nearly every woman has her head covered, and the call to prayer and readings from the Koran blast constantly over the mosque's speakers. The food is great. When you go to a restaurant they bring out a huge bowl of rice and about twenty different kinds of meats and vegetables. You simply take what you want and leave the rest. When you are finished they just charge you for what you ate. Oh, and you get to eat with your hands! Well, your right hand.
I did make it out the Mentawai's and spent a few days surfing a world class left called Telescopes. It was macking with double overhead sets on the second day. Google Image it. Today Jeff and I surfed this fun river mouth in Padang, wading out through the river was about the filthiest thing I have ever done though.
Much love to all my peeps! Thanks so much for the prayers, I have been in great health. Sumatra is so in need of people to come and be salt and light. Pray for workers to come here! I will be back in the States on Tuesday, I look forward to talking to and seeing many of you.
Working for Peace,
Eric
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