Need to say that many time to ourselves.
It isn't easy to arrange things in here. Plan for day 3 is island hopping. Mike had made a boat arrangement through Nanik's grandparent a day before. We had the boat confirmed this morning. So we were very excited. I prepared my snorkling gear, load my backpack with foods, camera, swimming suit, sunblock. On the way, we bought more bottled drink. Yet, when we arrived at Nanik's grandpa place, he said there was no boat. The boat has gone fishing and will come back at 5pm. So it's pretty upsetting as we don't have much time in Simeulue and we want to explore as much as possible.
So then we just drove around and see if any interesting beach. We saw once from the uphill road. A blue clear water. Then we tried to come closer. But the track was pretty tough. It was unfinished road. We couldn't take our motorbike. So we walked in and tried to follow the buffalo path. We ended up trapped in the mud and it was jungle at the end. It wasn't the shortcut to the beach :(.
We got back to our motorbike and drove again till we got really hungry. It's also not easy to find place to eat. Seems people here are self sufficient. Even if we find one, it's only either indomie goreng or Indomie rebus. But this day we're lucky to find warung sold rice and home cooked food. Though it was just fish and sambal. As usual people are curious and flocking around just to see Mike. But then I had to be the one get busy answering their regular question what's your religion thingy. More kids coming in and we entertained them with english speaking practice as some of them just entered Junior High School and learn English. I asked them to show me their english lesson book. I'm pretty shocked they had to learn 2 foreign language at the same time: English and Arabic. Something wrong with this country education, kids are given to much things to absorb. When is the time to have fun and explore what they're passionate about? After all 80% what they learnt at school will just stay in their school bag.
Anyway, we tried to have fun with this english lesson practice. It was nice except that at the end of the lunch the warung owner charged 1DR 50k for just eating rice, a piece of fish, 3 Teh Botol and nothing else. Oh ha.. Keep calm & stay cool. This is Simeulue.
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