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Everything you always wanted to know about Pef but were afraid to ask (sorry, Woody Allen!)

5/2/2021

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I recently checked for the first time since I started writing this blog: I have written 63 blog texts so far. Including a break last summer and over Christmas. That’s quite a lot, I think. In the beginning, it was easy to come up with new ideas every week as everything about my life on Pulau Pef was new and exciting. After a few months, I got more used to everyday life on the island, but there was still so much happening with new guests coming and going, events, staff issues, cute animals, or my problems with the Indonesian language. I wrote about feeling homesick, about teamwork in Indonesia, about how good my colleagues are at waiting, about my birthday party and about «playing the priest». About waiting for rain, education in West Papua, saying goodbye, music and singing on the island and about laughing and not worrying about tomorrow. Most weeks, it just took me a few hours of happy typing, followed by one or two checks the following day, before the new text was ready to be posted.

At the beginning of the pandemic, I also still felt I had a lot to write about. We were living so differently from the rest of the world on our little island that there was a lot to write about. And when I came home for a holiday last summer, the difference between my life in Raja Ampat during the pandemic and life back home was striking and also inspired me to a few of my texts. But now, after three months in Switzerland and life on the island also much slower, I have to admit that I sometimes struggle to find topics to write about. I try to imagine what you, my readers, might be interested in, what you would want to read about. So, I decided to put the question out there!
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What are you interested in knowing?
What would you like me to write about?
What have you always wanted to know about life on the island?
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​Don’t hesitate to let me have your input by commenting below and I will do my best to write about it as long as the topic hasn’t already been treated in one of my previous blog posts.
​And as long as the question is not «When are you going to re-open the resort?». Because, I don’t know…
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Peter Balzer
7/2/2021 20:55:12

Liebe Monika,
danke und was mich einmal interessieren würde : wie hat sich die Natur verändert ohne den Gästebetrieb ? Sind dieTiere auf der Insel mehr sichtbar, Papageien, Echsen etc ? Es wird weniger Süsswasser verbrauch, hat dies positive Auswirkungen ? Generell einfach die Frage sind Veränderungen in dieser Zeit bemerkbar, auch unter Wasser ?
E liebe Gruess
Peter

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Monika
9/2/2021 17:35:51

Vielen Dank, lieber Peter!
Sobald ich zurück auf der Insel bin, werde ich deine Vorschläge gerne aufnehmen und berichten, was sich verändert hat. Ich hatte zu Beginn der Pandemie bereits einmal beschrieben, welche Veränderungen mir in der Natur aufgefallen sind. Nun ist ja eine Weile vergangen. Mal schauen, was sich seither getant hat.
Liebe Grüsse

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Gabi
8/2/2021 08:54:45

How about the Indonesian cuisine? What are some of your favorite dishes? What kinds of produce do they use that you did not know before? What are the foods that you miss the most from home when you are on the island?
And how is your very own vegetable garden doing on the island?
Maybe share a recipe that we could try?
Miss you :)
Gabi

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Monika
9/2/2021 17:40:52

Thanx sis!
Good idea, I shall do that when I'm back and have had a taste of the local cuisine again;-).
I did write about the food I miss from home once, but not enough about the local produce that we use on the island.
And btw, there is a recipe of our famous sambal that you can download from our website (https://www.raja4divers.com/restaurant.html) and try out at home. Good luck - it's really spicy!
Big hug!

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    I never even dreamt of working on a remote island in Indonesia, but life has a way of taking care of itself…
    Born and raised in Switzerland, I worked in marketing almost all my life and joined Raja4Divers in August 2019 as Marketing Manager.
    ​This is my first blog and it reflects my impressions, feelings and thoughts from the day that I set foot on this beautiful island. It is meant to give you a different, more personal and backstage view of life on Pulau Pef.
    Happy reading and thank you for your comments, likes and shares!
    ​Monika
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