The trip from Hartford to Jakarta was as painless as possible. I am hauling three gigantic duffel bags full of equipment (totaling around 180 pounds - far far overweight). These include 200 bottles for taking water samples, 12 buckets for catching and measuring rainfall, a water velocimeter in a case that looks like it was made for a gun, two laptops, and a 10 pound, $15,000 instrument for measuring water quality. Needless to say, I'm relived that everything arrived safe and sound! The flight was slightly amazing - we passed through the arctic circle from Chicago to Hong Kong, and we could see icebergs for much of the trip, and then an amazing Russian/Mongolian landscape. Unfortunately it was cloudy over China, so no great wall for me this time =)
Now, after slightly more than six months away from Indonesia, I'm back in Jakarta. The experience is slightly deja vous. The government offices still have way too many pleasant employees, who take far too long to prepare letters and documents given the difficulty of the task. However this time I'm prepared - I have a good book to read while I'm waiting!
Now I have to grab lunch and return to the immigration office (for the third time in two days) to get a letter. I'll try and update this blog regularly for all my admirers...thanks for reading!
Monday, June 30, 2008
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