Sorry for the delay in posting, and for the lack of Diana photos in this post as well. We finally got out battery recharger set up, so we’ve got the use of our camera back, but have been a little busy this week. We started our Indonesian language classes on Monday. The class meets two nights a week and there are only 8 of us in the class, plus Diana. There is a couple from Chile, another American couple who worked at Morenci 10 years ago, our friend Jamie from Morenci, and another American engineer. Diana has been able to make it through the hour-long class with the help of Cheerios and pear cubes, although the enthusiastic laughter of two of our classmates did cause her to burst into tears a few times. Luckily she is easily soothed!
Emily went to the Rumba Latina dinner and dance party at the club on Friday night and had a good time. She was assuming that some of the older couples might head home a little early and she could catch a ride with them, but no such luck. Everyone stayed until the bitter end, so she didn’t make it home until 11:30, but Diana didn’t seem to notice at all. She has been sleeping really well at night and sleeps until 6:30 or 7:00am. She is still taking three naps a day, but they are all only about an hour long.
The most exciting news from the last week (at least for Em), is that we’ve started getting Diana to practice on her little potty. We just set it up next to her changing pad on the floor, and when we go the check/change her diaper (about every half hour) we plop her on. We have about a 50% success rate, and she seems to really enjoy all of the cheering we do when she goes. We’re not anticipating that she’ll be diaper-free anytime soon, but it is nice to reduce our diaper laundry load a bit.
Here are some pictures of the snow that they had up near the mine last month. Since we’re in Indonesia, most of the people here have never seen snow, so there was a mini traffic jam as people pulled off the mine road to take pictures. We’ll work on getting some pictures of Diana up this weekend.
