Thursday, November 10, 2016

Smoke (Part 1)

   Several times since moving to Indonesia, I've woken up and my room has been full of smoke.  Not like smoke from a fire, but diesel fumes from an exhaust pipe.  The first time it happened, I had no idea what was happening and freaked out a little bit (actually a lot).

   Here's what was happening...

   Whenever an area in our city has lots of cases of dengue fever, the local government will send out a group of guys to fog the area to kill/control mosquitos.  Because our rainy season has been so erratic, there are many more mosquitos and many more cases of dengue than normal... and by extension, the fogging guys have been around a lot more often.

On the Edge

     A few things about Kaelen... she is smiling and goofy and silly all the time, EXCEPT for when anyone is taking a picture.  Then she...