New "Home": Malang

Hearing the call to prayer right now outside the campus of Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang.  Once I saw people's faces getting on the plane in Singapore I felt real happiness, the beginning of connection.  And everyone smiles at us, enhancing that connection.  The Indonesians love to laugh at little things, at finding amusement in the everyday, and that is sheer delight for me.  Everything else is slow, and painstaking, trying to get registered with the police, but not having the documents and permits that we have to go back to get in Jakarta next week.  At least we have a week before another airplane ride.  Then four days of office-hopping and papers to validate ourselves to myriad authorities.  But we will persist. That's it for now, in this novice attempt at a blog.  Thanks for reading!