Monday, April 18, 2005

Sabang Island

FRIDAY

AM:
  • Wake up with my sinus condition no better than it has been for the past two days - can't breathe and nose running like crazy
  • Try to convince my boss that I need to go away for the weekend for the sake of my mental and physical health - he says no
  • Make plans to go away anyway

PM:

  • Meet up with a friend of a friend to hitch a ride to the port
  • Take speed boat over to Sabang Island
  • Arrive at beach resort and meet more friends of friends - all German, Austrian and Swiss
  • Crack open a cold one
  • Zeppelin
  • Check into bungalo #3
  • Go swimming in the clean warm water of the lagoon
  • Eat dinner prepared by the European and Japanese staff of the dive shop
  • Fall asleep under mosquito net back in bungalo #3

Saturday

AM

  • Eat breakfast at the cafe overlooking the water
  • Read a magazine in a hammock on the beach
  • Rain begins - retreat to write in my journal indoors
  • Nap in bungalo #3

PM

  • Back to the cafe for lunch
  • Hang out with the Euros at the dive shop
  • Bust out with my rusty German language skills, much to everyone's amazement (including mine)
  • Depart on small motor boat to go snorkeling with the Euros at offshore island - see jellyfish, starfish, crabs, manta rays, angel fish, and other colorful fish
  • Back to bungalo #3 to change and have a beer
  • Ride motorcycles with the Euros to have dinner at a restaurant up the coast
  • Sleep

SUNDAY

AM

  • Breakfast at the beach
  • Swimming
  • Sunbathing
  • George Carlin and Lewis Black on the i-Pod Shuffle

PM

  • Coca Cola
  • Lunch
  • Reading in the hammock - Aldous Huxley
  • Nap
  • German wine and candles with the Euros on the porch of bungalo #3
  • Dinner
  • Sleep

MONDAY

AM

  • Ferry back to Banda Aceh
  • Back to work

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