Archive for January 2012

Kudus, Indonesia

With New Year’s fes­tiv­i­ties over, we head to Kudus, a small town in Cen­tral Java where Nes’ mom grew up. Kudus is the birth­place of kretek, the clove cig­a­rette, and is home to Djarum, the third largest pro­ducer of “cloves”. We’ll spent just one night in Kudus at the home of Ina’s old­est brother, Om […]

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Semarang, Indonesia

Agnes was finally suc­cess­ful in sur­pris­ing her par­ents with a visit home. Last time she tried, they found out and ended up play­ing a prank and sur­pris­ing her! We met her dad while he was vis­it­ing her Grandma (he was gen­uinely sur­prised! I was sure he knew). We stayed a while and played with the half […]

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