A couple of weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend a few days in the big city of Jakarta with some of my fellow language students. This ended up turning into quite an experience. Common sense would dictate that in order to truly experience a city you need to experience the things that it is known for. Jakarta is a huge city (13+ million) and it just happens to be well known for heat, traffic jams and floods. The heat was pretty much a given from day 1, so with that checked off the list, we set out in search of the other two. We soon found the traffic jams while trying not to be late for a dinner being held by our mission sponsoring board. The ironic part is that the traffic jams were caused by flooding. Now, it has been said that the best way to experience flooding is to get right down in the water… so that is what we did. Our taxi turned into a boat, a leaky boat, and we began to wander the streets looking for dry ground hoping the taxi wouldn’t quit. After about ten minutes of floating in the taxi we found dry ground again and the taxi driver was kind enough to stop and let us scoop the water out of the foot wells before we continue on. Oh yeah, the traffic and floods caused our 1 hour taxi ride to take over 3 hours! Even so, we ended up being some of the first people to the dinner! So what is the moral of the story? Make sure your taxi is waterproof!
Language study: I have just over a week left in Unit 8 and only one unit left after that! I just had a language evaluation to see where I am at with the language and it appears I am getting closer to the goal of capable low! Lord willing, I would love to reach that goal by the end of April so pray with me as I keep studying.
A big praise! My crate with all my tools arrived and in sitting in the hangar waiting for me to come unpack it!
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