2 nights on a bus and 2 tourist stops

The first and only other "study tour" I have been on was in 2003 when I was 14 years old. Sheesh, I'm getting old!

This year, I "slept" for 2 nights on a bus with 100 11th grade Indonesian students, most of whom had never been to the beach before...and they live on an ISLAND!

Qilmi, me, Adlan and Pak Lutfi psyched to be at the beach!

Dilla was one brave soul, the first in the water, and one of the last out! 

Hakim and I

One day when Hakim is famous, I told him to use this as his CD cover...I"m not sure if he even actually plays the guitar or if he was just borrowing it from Puthot...

Nazil, easily one of the best English students!

Beach Bum Boys!

The ocean!!!

Puthot and Okta!

Only in Indonesia would my students be buying knife souvenirs...oh Azim! 

We were going to go to this university for a tour, but when we arrived 2 hours late, the person who would be our tour guide had understandably left...

So then we took pictures for like 1.5 hours while we waited for the student who was left behind at the beach...turns out, he didn't catch up with us until later in the evening. So we missed the trip to the factory too...

About 3/5 of the group...the teachers had a notable lack of interest in trying to round up everyone to take a group shot!

Miss Sarah and the boys...I reminded them again and again that when they uploaded these pictures to Facebook, I was their TEACHER, not their white girlfriend from America!!!

Teaching the students frisbee!

After leaving the beach at 9 AM, waiting at the university for the student that never came, and dealing with traffic, we finally arrived at Borobudur at 2:30 PM. Yay Indonesian scheduling!

The HUGE Hindu Temple, Borobudur. 

Nazil and Yuni

Missing Buddha head becomes Okta's head!

Buddha gazes over the horizon

LOOK AT THIS SUNSET! Amazing!

Tshirts at the market

Bats! Apparently not just Togolese cuisine!

Lia and Nyla bargaining for their batiks

Oh, sunburn!

Pak Lutfe, what a bro! Pictures with Syamsul, Niya and Fiki

Some random costume-clad people...that white one is the Indonesian Muslim version of a ghost because that is how they wrap up the body to bury it.