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June 19th 2008
I'm starting to get into a routine at the clinic. The midwives have been wonderful, we spend much of our idle time practicing our English and Indonesian translations and pronunciations. I am even picking up a few words and phrases here and there, but I still don't leave the ashram without my Indonesian phrasebook! Over the past week I have begun to familiarize myself with the area (I live in the ... read more

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The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hos... ... read more