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Withdrawals

The Danau Toba Hotel is a far cry from the UN Base Camp on the football field in Meulaboh. I'm sitting here in a room with air conditioning, a shower all to myself, a bed with a real pillow, and there are no mosquitos. This afternoon I took a five-minute walk over to the Sun Plaza, a huge mall, to eat at the A & W restaurant. You might have an idea how good that root beer float tasted, but I doubt it! Then I stopped by Starbucks and bought myself a small coffee.

Of course I keep thinking about the camp and my friends back in Meulaboh. I just can't seem to get that off my mind. I know it will subside in a few days, but I almost don't want that to happen. I just got off-line from chatting with Jonathan, and it was good to find out how things are going today. He'll be running the Internet café on his own until Monday, when my replacement arrives.

I left the camp at 7 AM, and arrived at the airport to find out that the flight I was to be on was cancelled. The plane would be arriving about 8:15 AM, but they were going to do some maintenance in the morning, and then fly to Medan about noon. That meant I could either stay at the airport and wait, or go back to camp for a few hours. I just waited at the airport, because I didn't want to go through the goodbyes again. Just before noon I was getting hungry, so I pulled the can of Swedish meatballs out of my bag and shared them with Ted Landis, one of the MKs working with the MAF and Samaritan's Purse pilots. Ted cooked up some pasta, and we had the meatballs with that. Good stuff, and thank you to Jesper!