It's Sienna Jones's 15th birthday. Her Godfather, Big Doctor Tom, is home from Africa. "Imagine Hagrid from Harry Potter with read hair. Now add an MD and faded Hawaiian clothes and you get [Sienna's] Dad's best friend." Her Mom has disappeared and her Dad has stopped working abroad competely to say home with her. His Mom came 3 years ago and is staying in the granny unit to help care for Sienna. Croissants, bagels, blueberries, pancakes, and fair trade Indonesian coffee are present for the birthday celebration. Sienna's birthday present is a plane ticket to Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Her Dad, her Godfather, and Vera, another psychiatrist, want Sienna to join them for 2 weeks at the Indonesian orphanage which houses many victims of the recent tsunami. Sienna is frightened of the plane ride, (Her Mom disappeared on one.) and her best friend from childhood, Spider, comforts and encourages her. Sienna helps one of the orphans, Deni, look for his Dad in Aceh. Unfortunately, his fathers is dead, but his fiancee is not.
Gateway Award Preliminary Nominee 2012-13
Food - Birthday Celebration (see above) & Minte Sasi Bungkus = packed meal to go = ayam goring - fried chicken, gulai - coconut curry, tempe - soybean cake, & white rice in banana leaves
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