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There’s a line from a Louis Armstrong song that goes something like this:
“When you’re showerin’
Oh, when you’re showerin’
The whole room showers with you”
Okay, so I may have taken some artistic liberties with the exact wording. Anyhow, in Indonesia the bathrooms are more like “wet rooms”. That’s especially true since we’ve installed a shower [...]

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Little Known Fact #2: We can see bats any time we want, simply by stepping onto our balcony at night.  I’m not sure why there are so many of them.  I think there are caves in the general vicinity.
They swoop really close to our balcony.  They alight on the branches of the nearby guava tree.  [...]

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There are so many little details about our daily life in Indonesia.  Many of these little details, you’re probably not aware of.  And there are too many to fit into one posting.  So I’ve decided to start a new category - LKF (Little Known Facts).
LKF #1 - We don’t flush our toilet paper, we collect [...]

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