Happy Independence Day!

I thought Americans were patriotic until we came to Indonesia. August 17 is Indonesian Independence Day and let me tell you they know how to celebrate! They don’t just celebrate with one day of food and fireworks they celebrate all month long! There aren’t just flags lining main street and a few of your neighbors houses, there are flags literally everywhere; lining every street, in front of every home, and anywhere else you could possibly fly a flag.


They repaint all the white lines on the roads (which is a really big deal here), many people repaint their gates and the fronts of their homes. They have neighborhood parties where they get together and clean up the neighborhood, and every neighborhood just has a party in general with lots of food and games! Oh, and as far as fireworks go, you can hear or see fireworks almost every night every night of the month!


We didn’t get any pictures of the neighborhood party, but we had a party at our language school and thought we would share a few pictures of the games we played. You may get a kick out of these!