Frisbee Friends Part 2

 Last month some friends from Texas came for a visit!  They brought with them some frisbees (donated by a Sunday School Class) for the boys to use and to give away.  Playing frisbee has been one way the boys have been able to meet some boys in our neighborhood.  (Click here to see that blog post)  The gifts from Texas came just in time because our frisbee cracked the week before they arrived!  Here are some of the boys in our neighborhood.  Our three boys are teaching them how to throw and catch the frisbee. They learned quickly!

This is the road in front of our house, by the way.  Ain't it perty?  Our house is on the right.  Can't see it...sorry.

 In the end, our boys were able to give the frisbee to the boys.

Happy boys and their new toy!

Sayur Lady

We have two vegetable (sayur) ladies who come down our street almost every day.  One (who is pictured below) says, "Sah-YUUUUUUUUUUUUR!" and the other one hollers, "Woooooooo" in a sort of falsetto voice.  I guess that way you know which lady is coming, if you have a preference.  You can buy vegetables, fruit, fish, chicken and clams (A Clammy Story) and, well, it just depends on the day.  On this day, we bought some bangkwang (did I spell that right?), a white root that is sweet and can be eaten raw like carrots and cucumbers.

The other morning we heard the Es Puter man ringing his bell and Joel prayed for him.  

"God, please bless the Es Puter man with lots of customers so that he will make a lot of money today."  After he prayed, he explained, "I like to pray that God will bless the street vendors."

"Oh, did you pray for God to bless the sayur lady the other day?" asked Seth, "I saw her with lots of customers, that must have been why."

Project Peace: Es Puter

Want some Es Puter?  What's that?  Well, we found out when we stopped the Es Puter man as he pushed his  cart down our street.  Each street vendor has a unique sound and part of our Peace Project is to find out which sound goes with which vendor!  The Es Puter man rings a bell (you can see his bell tied to the handle of his cart).  Es Puter comes down our street mid-morning.  He sells a cup of his sweet treat for 2,000 Rp (about 20 cents).  It is a spoon of black rice, a spoon of boiled peanuts and then a scoop or two of milky chocolatey ice cream.

It was fun to try...not on our list of favorite snacks!  Part B of our "vendor goal" is to either go outside and say hi to the vendors we have already met, or use their unique "sound" to remind us to pray for them.  So each day, when we hear the Es Puter man ring his bell, we wave hello to him, or we stop what we are doing and pray for him.

Project Peace: Frisbee Friends

A few blocks from our house is a "basketball court."  I type that in quotes because, well, it's mostly just a slab of cement with broken basketball hoops lying down on the sidelines and makeshift soccer goals in their place.  It is just outside the neighborhood mosque.  As part of our "Peace Project," we decided to take the frisbee to the "basketball court" and see if we could find any kids.

And we did!  At first they were shy and only watched.  But what kid can resist a frisbee?  So they eventually joined.

When we were done, we said good-bye to them and walked home.  They followed at a distance so they could see where we lived!  Turns out, they live in the kampung (village neighborhood) right next to our neighborhood.  Sometimes they come by our house now and call out for the boys to come play!

A Clammy Story

One day, there was a homeschool mom and her crew of students who decided to start "Peace Project." They lived in a neighborhood called "Peace" and decided to pray for the neighborhood and meet as many people as they could.  They also decided to stop every street vendor to learn who they were and what they sold.  First to come by was the vegetable seller.  So the Kelley Crew bought tomatoes, oranges and a bag of...clams.  

How do you cook clams?  The vegetable seller said, "Oh that's easy!"

Just boil some water...

With a little salt...

Wash the clams (she didn't mention how dirty they were)...

Put them in the boiling water...

for ten minutes...

And there you have it...

A cooked clam!

With a little ketchup mixed with sambal (hot sauce)...

They taste...

Eddy wants some...

because they taste...

well, they taste...

Well, yes, they do taste.  But mostly we just covered them in ketchup, so I can't really vouch for how they tasted.   But we did get to know the vegetable seller!