Fishing in the Swimming Pool

Some of you may remember that last year we turned the area that will eventually be our school's swimming pool into a rice field. This year our Indonesian workers turned it into a fishing pond. Last weekend they invited our staff out to join them. It's common here to see small ponds that locals stalk with fish and charge a small fee for people to go fishing in them. So our Indonesian staff blocked off an area of the field that used to be planted with rice and filled it with water. Then they bought a bunch of fish and dumped them in. I asked one of the guys in charge how many fish they had put in and he told me around 150. You would think with all that fish in such a small pond it would be no problem to catch something, but in the whole time with all of us there only 3 fish were caught! One of the Indonesian staff scaled a couple of the fish and barbecued them and insisted that we try. It was delicious. What a beautiful afternoon. It was so nice to be outside. I loved being with our Indonesian staff and letting them teach me how to fish their way, with their poles. Shortly after we finished it started pouring rain, one of the biggest rains I have ever seen.

I think they all spotted a fish... everyone's pointing