Mattress Mountain

This afternoon when i woke up, all the students were waiting for me out the front of our house. One of them whisked me away and we set off down the hill to gunung kasur (mattress mountain). We walked up and up a big mountain. Mum went pretty slow and but at least she wasn't sick. At last we reached the top of the mountain with a great view of the whole region of Cipanas. Rice paddies, mountains, houses, flower gardens. At the top of gunung kasur we found a big rock in the shape of a mattress and a little wall built around it which people said used to be a house a long time ago. People think that the place is very special and people had left incense at the top of the mountain as well as some food.
We then walked back down the mountain on another track which one of the students said would be a "short cut", it ended up taking us through a very small kampung past many smiling faces, up another long road, through a big housing complex and then back up the hill to our house. The short cut ended up taking nearly 2 hours to get back and people were standing in the dark waiting for us as they thought we were lost! We were all very tired and I slept like a log that night!