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Keen to practice her English the school girl in the orange shirt told us proudly how she was top of her class and wanted to be an English teacher when she is older. She invited us to stay with her too but I was leaving the next morning sadly.

More motorbike madness

May 11th 2006
For my last day in the area Aaron and I rented motorbikes again to explore a route that a french anthropologist, who is living here, reccomended to us. It basically took us around Singgalang volcanoe which is one of the two large volcanoes that looms menacingly over Bukittinggi. This time Aaron tried to get a quieter motorbike as the last one was so incredibly loud. Seriously I never imagined ... read more

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