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Manado is a busy city, there’s a bit of tourism, but mostly locals. Of those who are tourists, we’ve only seen a handful of other Western looking people.
It means that even walking to the shops is almost a celebrity event! It helps when one of our team members – Sam – is about 9 feet tall! The locals are very friendly and enjoy practising their English while we practise our Bahasa Indonesian.
We regularly pose for photos in town (away from the Compassion projects) with random people.
Riley, our youngest team member, has been asked a number of times if he is Justin Bieber!! He is winning when it comes to posing-for-requested photos count.