A few days before Christmas, my friend, Widya, invited me to go with her to her home in Batu(45 minutes from Malang). She invited me to come to the Christmas service her church was having. We left Thursday morning, spent the day at her family's house and then went to the service later that night. It was fun to experience the service at her church. They had dancing, singing and a sermon. I was all ready to see how much of the sermon I could understand. As the pastor spoke, I was feeling really discouraged because I only understood maybe 10% of what he said. I quickly realized he wasn't speaking in Indonesian...it was Javanese(another local language on the island of Java)! That made me so relieved to know that it wasn't because my Indonesian is horrible...although it would have been nice to understand the sermon :)
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| Widya with her little cousin...she is such a cutie!! |
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| We went on a little walk around her grandfather's house. It was absolutely beautiful! And...Batu is cooler(temp. wise) than Malang. As they would say here...Enak! |
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| At first she was really shy and afraid of me, but she warmed up a little...I think because I had a camera :) |
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| At the service the kids sang during worship, too. |
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| They were soooooo cute!!! |
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| There were also two little girls who did a traditional dance in traditional dress. I wish it were a better picture! They were really good! |
It was so fun to spend more time with Widya, meet her family and friends, and see where her home is! Thanks for inviting and including me, Widya! :)
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