After uploading our first vodcast and blogs yesterday afternoon, we headed out to Kumpung Baru to spend the night in the village at Stan's house. We arrived at 6 to a herd of children welcoming us in! They all have the biggest smiles and are more than adorable. For about an hour before dinner I danced with the children (to rounds of applause and laughter, especially when I spun the little boys around :) The girls also introduced me to a new version of patty-cake which we played many rounds of until their mothers began calling them in for dinner. These children are amazing! They are so happy with what they have, even though when I looked around the village, the poverty surrounding them was unbelievable.

A local women, Esha, cooked us a delicious dinner of rice (surprise!), tempeh (a less refined version of tofu which looks like little blocks of seeds) and a corn and green bean mixture. The food here is good, but in the last ten years they have taken a turn from baking or boiling everything to frying it in palm oil as that is the cheapest. I'm definitely craving my salads!

After dinner we got invited to hear some of the boys from the village play music in a studio near by. We took the short walk there and hung out at an amazing house. The owner used to work as a mechanic in the oil, coal and gold industries and now owns 4 houses and has given one to each of his children.

After a long day, we returned to Stan's house to head to bed. At around 12:30 there was a rooster sound off showdown where two roosters close by proceeded to cock-a-doodle-doo as loud as they could in competition with each other. I also heard a gnarly rat fight going on in the walls of the house. At one point I swear one crawled over me. And I'm sure I was imagining it but it was still creepy.