At the Feet of the King: May 2013

More pictures and more commentary!

I went out to lunch one day with some of my friends in the bank. This was the day we were all wearing our matching batiks in Standard Chartered colors - we look good don't we?!

The Corporate Affairs team in our matching batiks

And Tom and I in our matching batiks!

Playing golf :)

This past weekend Tom and I had quite the cooking marathon!

Gnocchi in tomato sauce, beet and quinoa salad, foccacia, granola, apple pie... whew it was a great day in the kitchen!

Last weekend we went out to a dinner party at the home of some of T&C's friends - the wife is a professional chef so the meal was fantastic! This was the menu!

We played in a Memorial Day golf tournament hosted by the US Embassy - so much fun!

These were part of the goodie bags - SCORE!

Some of the ladies I work with took me to a batik museum where they make batiks! And I got to make one too! So neat! And quite the process - first you drew your pattern onto the cloth...

This was one by someone who is really really good! Isn't it beautiful? Each color means it has been dyed that many times... wow.

Next, you took a wax pencil-like thing and traced all the lines you had drawn in pencil

Then you dyed it!

And boiled it to take the wax off

Ta da!

Here is a little photo journal of my time in Indonesia so far! I'll tell the story of everything we have done as you scroll through the photos...

After a long 21 hours of flying and airports, we are descending into Jakarta! Let the adventure begin!

This lovely view awaited me in the penthouse. It's especially spectacular in the evening with all the city lights.

Saturday night we went to the British Women's Association "Fashion Show" - it was really a succession of dance preformances by some of the British women. It was extremely well done and a blast to watch!

We played nine holes on Saturday and in a tournament on Sunday - the courses are beautiful and tropical and it is so much fun to have a caddy! They love teaching me Bahasa Indonesian. I had to learn my numbers quick so I could tell her what clubs I wanted :)

I bombed my drive on the "long drive" hole - outdriving both the men's and the women's markers!

These girls were reciting a poem at the big Gala event celebrating Standard Charter's 150 years in Indonesia. They asked me to help them with their pronounciation since they were reciting the poem in English!

They asked if I had brothers and sisters so I told them about Spencer and showed them his picture. They immediately thought he looked like Niall from One Direction - which is something that everyone in the States says too! It was pretty funny and they have quite a crush on spence :)

We went out into a community for one of SCB's community social responsibility (CSR) events. These children were participating in the Goal Program while a group of mothers were being taught financial literacy from a new book that SCB had developed (which I'm currently working on translating so I can see what we were teaching them!)