Work and play

Ive been out and about recently. Went over to our Aceh programme to do some training on how to set up a business. Now this was all new stuff to me so I had to do a bit of research and some creative thinking. We are promoting sand filters - a simple way to make dirty water clean and drinkable. The entrpreneurs make the filter from concrete, fill it with sand and then sell it for a profit so they can make some more. Simple!? I came up with sandfilter Monopoly where instead of buying properties you go round buying materials for your filter, doing community activities and trying to avoid landing in hospitial (instead of jail). Had lots of fun and by the end of it I think people had a better idea of how to plan their finances.


Also got the job of team hairdresser.


Me and Chris got our second holiday together; this time in Java. Stayed in Yogjakarta, where Hindism, meets Buddism meets Islam. There is a heady mix of religion, culture and arts all jumbled together in a big student town and overshadowed by "the most active volcano in the world".















Visited temples like this one -




Climbed the Mount Merapi volcano but it was decidedly dormant and shrouded in cloud so this is a picture of Chris in the bamboo forest.

Took the preferred drug of Javanese - coffee























and I made a ring.