August 2011
4 posts
Wrapping it up
The team has been doing some real story hunting lately as we wiggle our way into unthinkable situations and interview some very prominent people.We’ve gotten to talk with the Head of Reconstruction and Development, as well as a few directors of the Tsunami Destruction & Research Mitigation Center here in Aceh. We also managed to pull some strings to get some aerial shots done. They...
Western Food...
“Becca, I’ve never done this before.”
“Done what before?”
“…been on the Wendy’s website..”
I look over to see Chris, in full out craving mode, on the Wendy’s fast food website. We love the food here, don’t get us wrong. Tonight we had a big plate of octopus and we both ate a lot of coral fish (we see it as sweet revenge for the...
Mouse be gone.
Time of death: 23:00.
R.I.P. Next time, don’t bite off more fingernail than you can chew, little mouse.
Sound sleep here I come.
- Chris
July 2011
9 posts
Sabang, Sabang
Rice, kites and coconut juice
It’s difficult to describe the incredible chain of events that just took place. While on the front porch of Becca’s homestay attempting to make sense of our budget, we were approached by a group of curious Indonesian children. Having a difficult time understanding what they were asking, we pulled out the trusty pocket Indonesian phrasebook. Before we knew it, a group of about 10 kids were looking...
Settling in
It’s been a lot of ups and downs so far. Mostly because a lot of the photographs we are trying to recreate, now have things built around them and trees have grown like crazy in the years since the tsunami. We are over joyed to tell you that this is because Aceh has rebuilt and is thriving once again. We are still taking the photos, and it should be a huge testament to the resilience and...
Banda Aceh, finally.
We are here, finally. We wake up to the sound of roosters crowing at 4 in the morning. It’s constantly hot and humid and never having experienced jet lag before, we are suffering a bit. We get stared at every where we go, and no one speaks English. Our limited Indonesian has proved somewhat useful, but most everyone here speaks Acehnese…not Indonesian.
Traffic laws don’t exist...
Hong Kong!
Made it through the first (second) leg of the journey. Only 15 hours and 4 terrible in-flight movies later we arrived in Hong Kong. Starting to feel a little lag; not too bad though.
Only an hour lay-over then onto Singapore for the night. Hope Changi International has comfy couches.. (7 hour lay-over).
The Hong Kong Airport from the sky. Not our photo…
Rebuilding Banda Aceh: A Post-Tsunami Comparison...
—- In December of 2004, one of the worst natural disasters in history overwhelmed the coasts of several countries in the Indian Ocean. Within hours of the initial earthquake, 230,000 people lost their lives in the ensuing tsunami. The hardest hit area was Aceh, the western-most province of Indonesia where over 175,000 people perished along the shores.
Are you still able to picture the...
