Day 2

 hello! I hope you are all doing really great!!!!! I am going to  go ahead and apologize for any misspelled words or incoherent sentences for previous, current, or future posts. SEVERE JET LAG! Here is a quick overview of our day! Rachel and I woke up around 330am and had a nice little party in our room until like 6 am and then we woke up at seven and got ready for the day!!! A friend invited us to go to her "house" today.  It was very fun! Dancing and flags and really loud music ,ear plugs were needed. After that we met a couple other people and they took us out for a traditional Palembang meal. Peppees (sp?)  Fish with dough balls is the best way I know how to describe it. It was also served with a soup that was really really good very flavor full and I think it had some fish stuff in it too!   They poured me this sauce to  eat and I asked if it was spicy and they giggled so I proceeded with caution. It was familiar.. Taste of Thai ,you know that sauce that they serve with Eggrolls, like that  .. but 9 billion times more spicy. It was good. After we ate there we headed out to the mall. We looked around for a while and  sat in the floor at the Cinemas for a good hour and half just talking about culture differences and attempting to speak Indonesian and helping them with English. After that, Minar (our friend who was in charge)  decided she was going to leave us with her friends at the mall while she went back to her  "house". She said while she was gone we would have the dead skin eaten off our feet by fish and then go get our hair done with a massage.. Its called a cremebath.  Well, let's just say that the mall was completely overwhelming!! EVERYONE STARED... seriously everyone. After Minar left we couldn't find the fish place so we just got our hair done.  They washed your hair and then took you to the chair and you picked out of a couple different cremes . They massaged your hair and head with the creme. Then they wrapped it up in a hot cloth and washed it back out. I was wondering the whole time if  My hair was actually going to be fixed back the way it is was before it got washed,  but it turns out that there thoughts of styling are just a few seconds under a blow dryer. That guy had no earthly idea how to fix my hair.. He kept combing my bangs back like towards the back of my head.. and I kinda wanted to scream.  But the back massage was really good, and I guess there are worse things than having  my hair not fixed .... right? We ended up staying there until 730pm. We then went out to eat some fried rice. This was actually the first time we have had fried rice. It had chicken in it ,but some parts of the chicken looked like mushrooms so I chose to eat around it.. I am thinking it was livers? (Your thoughts please). Then we came back home.  I don't think that B & G thought we were ever coming home. They felt so bad that we were out all day, but we told that we had a lot of fun. The Indonesians  keep telling us we are beautiful and they want to look like us.. ( I have no idea why.. so confusing) They laugh at all our jokes and especially all of my crazy faces (Jess and Casey). They are so sweet  and love our Father so much!   Okay two quick stories.  1) We were driving to lunch with the 4 Indos and I started my random clapping  a couple times, so I was trying to explain that I just do that sometimes, but they didn't understand.   Which that could probably be explained by the fact that a few minutes later we realized that they thought we were talking about clubbing.. They told us they didn't go do that kind of thing.. and I was so confused..You dont clap? Really? I saw you doing it this morning. Then we realized that they thought we were saying clubbing haha.
 2) At lunch when they asked us what we wanted to drink we just said water, but they were insistent that we try juices.   I got Jambu juice. They didn't know really what is was in English so I just decided to try it.  It was a rose petal drink. I am positive it was made out of flowers.  It was so nasty!! SOOOOO NASTY . There juices are kinda like milkshakes.  I kept drinking it slowly, but it was really huge so I wasn't getting to far. They said you don't like it do you and I said.. um It's different and then they started laughing..  They are so understanding and just glad we will try things..  never again will  I be ordering Jambu juice but I do know that Sitsku was good it's peach! :)
3) Last but not least. I was trying to attempt to explain to them about Flemish giants.  By the end of the conversation I asked if he understood and he said " They get big just by eating celery and  carrots"   I Laughed and laughed and laughed He thought we had like Mega Celery and carrots. Too funny.
Today was overwhelming with culture and I am glad we in our safe room with very little stimulation because my brain has been going at the speed of sound all day.. oh by the way try to explain that something tastes like something else's smells to someone who doesn't really speak a lot of English. Great time! Blast
Saka( I in Indonesian) Miss USA and Home ,but its just like 7 weeks haha :) love you all so much thanks for the Encouragement!

Cayla