{"id":21,"date":"2009-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2015-12-23T03:06:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T20:06:12","slug":"we-have-arrived-in-borneo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"We have arrived in Borneo"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Boarding<\/a><\/p>\n

Well, we made it to the island of Borneo.\u00a0 But lets back-up to May.\u00a0 Seth and I grew another year older.\u00a0 Mothers day was, well simple – but we our family sure appreciates Jodie – mom, wife, our supermom!\u00a0 Sarah and Seth finished 8th and 7th grade respectively.\u00a0 Sarah\u2019s grades were honor-roll material and Seth almost made it.\u00a0 Then… time to move again and say goodbye to our friends on the island we studied language on.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a> \u00a0 The question of how to move our belongings 500 miles across the ocean to a new island had to be answered.\u00a0 Many people used a large 20′ crate, but we opted for the \u201ckantor pos\u201d – better known as the Post Office.\u00a0 By putting a little more work into packing, we only had to pay 1\/4 the cost of a large crate.\u00a0 My co-worker Shad and I built one crate and our national helpers made 3 more just like it.\u00a0 We could have used a couple more, but falling back to using boxes we were able to ship our belongings. The postmaster told us about 15 days, so we still eagerly await our belongings next week.\u00a0 Please pray they all make it, 4 crates and 5 boxes!<\/p>\n

Our last week was spent saying goodbye to our national friends, preparing to move out of the house, and a one-day break a the waterpark. Then, a couple more days packing our goods; enough to last us for a couple of weeks.<\/p>\n

Early Sunday morning at 4am we awoke before the \u201ccall to prayer.\u201d\u00a0 We left on-time made it to the airport in Yogyakarta.\u00a0 The airplane actually left on-time and by 10am we landed.\u00a0 Wow, what a weather difference – hot & humid!\u00a0 But we are already starting to adjust.
\nOur co-workers who are on furlough have allowed us to stay in their house until they return near the end of the year.<\/p>\n

We have posted some pictures on this website.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t checked out our Facebook<\/a> pages, search for Lawrence Elroy, Jodie Elroy, or the kids.\u00a0 There are many more pictures, and perhaps videos too.<\/p>\n

*Also, we have a new address.\u00a0 Check your e-mail!<\/p>\n

Check back in a couple of days, we will share an update of our first week here!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A brief overview of May 2009: our school, packing, a one day break, and our trip to Kalimantan (Borneo).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-family","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/lawrence-elroy\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}