Sat morning Feb. 26 - Pulau Weh, "Freddies's" - sharing my balcony with a gray/white cat at the moment. This place is every bit as great as I'd heard.I'm even able to use wifi even from my bungalow balcony, where I am right now, while I look down about 50 feet to the beach and listen to the sound of small waves rolling in.Tall coconut palms are all around me; on one side the jungle begins right next to my balcony.As darkness fell last night I walke...

Tues. Feb. 15 - Banda Aceh This is not where I'd expected to be but I'm glad to find myself here, especially since it turned out that the class I was supposed to help teach at IAIN never materialized, so I would've just been sitting around doing nothing for the next two weeks.Instead, when I met with US Consul from Medan on Thursday afternoon and he found out I was free, he immediately asked me to come here to help a group of about 20 students getting ready ...