My mom's piece of advice before I left (hmm). In truth, I'm here for a bit because of family, male circumcisions, and the fact that I don't have a job... yet(?). I've been pretty tired lately and had been blaming it on jetlag until I realized that I've been waking up at 5 for the past five days. Indonesians naturally get up that early for exercise/prayer/groceries... which is quite different from my ol waking-up-ten-minutes-before-class routine at Cal x) Nonetheless, I am coming to terms with the fact that 1) You need to haggle to survive... and I am a perpetual tourist who sucks at it (dammit!). We are traveling with a "bulai," or white person, which happens to be my sis's husband from Louisiana. He's super cool but my sis leaves him behind whenever we go
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