Farewell to Parigi

It is hard to believe that our time in Parigi, Sulawesi has come to an end. Truly the end of a chapter.

Just about to board the plane from Palu to Jakarta

After our holiday in the Togean islands, we returned to Parigi to pack up and say goodbye. We had a lovely final visit to each of the two schools that we taught in, and spent our last night at another karaoke party at the principal’s house with all our teacher colleagues.

It was such an opportunity to have stayed with Ui and his family and to have become so much a part of the community in Parigi since the beginning of September. It was sad to say goodbye, and we were spoilt and showered with gifts and souvenirs, which Indonesians call “oleh olehs”! Three full cars of people convoyed with us to the airport (2 hours away) to see us off!

One final photo shoot with the principals!

While we will no longer be in Parigi physically, it seems our legacy will remain… our photo is up on the wall (celebrity-style!) in one of the restaurants we ate in, hundreds of people have terrible cell phone photos of us… and we even did a spot for a Sulawesi radio station that will be played over and over! A few weeks ago we did a one hour radio show about what we were doing here, and afterwards they had us record in Indonesian, “This is Mr. Patrick and Mrs. Cayleigh from Canada. Never forget to listen to Radio Kareme Nuvela!” Hilarious!

 

 

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