Hi My Name is Molly...

Ok, so I am not sure what happened to the former version of Molly Evans. You all know her, the one who rarely took a risk without weighing every feasible thing that could go wrong, the one who was on the other side of the spectrum when it came to spontaneity. I am telling you she has disappeared and this new Molly has taken her place, a Molly that embraces adventure (even if it means she may not get a shower for a couple of days), who "doesn't even trip" when she can't use her hairdryer in the morning due to the danger of the house blowing up, and jumps at the chance to taste unappetizing foods like spicy woof woof and durian. You will believe me when you hear about the trip that she has chosen for the group to go on for Idul Fitri weekend ( the end of Ramadan in October, we get Friday off). Eight of the BAIS staff will be going to the jungles of Bukit Lawang. We will hopefully leave on Thursday October 11, right after school to catch a plane in Jakarta that night to Medan. From Medan we will take a three to four hour non-air-conditioned bus ride to The Jungle Inn (kind of sounds like the Sea Scape Inn). The Jungle Inn has nice rooms, from what we hear on the blogs of those who have stayed there before. There is only electricity sometimes, and there is no hot water. The morning after our arrival we will get up at 7am to go to the orangutan park to view the feeding time for about three hours. We will then proceed, with a guide, on a six our hike through the jungle. Be aware that on this hike, it is very likely that we will run into wild orangutans and maybe some tigers and snakes. At the end of our hike we will then take a raft or tube, we aren't quite sure exactly what mode of water transportation we will be taking, but somehow we will go back down the river to the start of our hike. The rest of the day we will be relaxing, or possible recovering from orangutan attacks, back at the inn and leave the next morning to go back to Medan to stay in a hotel with showers so we are not totally dead when we return on Sunday evening. Yes, I chose this trip, why? I am telling you, coming to Indonesia I must have left my former uptight, control freak self in Flagstaff. I am really excited for this trip. It should be amazing! Mom, dad, don't worry, I'm gonna be fine!
In other news, this week I totally bombed a math lesson, well, not totally, Charity and I were able to salvage the period in the end. It was not good, not good at all. But what are you gonna do? I also had the opportunity to sub in the 4th grade class for the afternoon, talk about a challenge. I was happy to do it, but totally scared out of my mind. I have only been observing a teaching a lesson here and there, I have never had a class to myself! I know God allowed that to happen for a reason though, and I am pretty certain that he is going to throw me into scary teaching situations like that more this semester. I also got to experience being on the other side of an Open House for the first time. Charity and I split up the presentation and got to know the parents a little bit. It went really well!
Happy to report that our electricity is back to normal. We can have more than one light on in the house and not fear that the roof will catch fire. It was pretty scary there for a while, and we fried a couple CD players in the process, but we are alive and well and our house is still in one piece.
I am having a blast getting into the school routine and laughing through all of the craziness with my awesome roommates:)