The only other interesting thing that happened in Soroako was the phone call I got one night before leaving the office. The day before, I had gone to exchange some US dollars at the local bank. I exchanged $200 USD (ten $20 bills) without problems. I was expecting they would not accept some of the bills as they were not the new design and that seems to always be an issue. However, I left with over $1.8M Rupiah, a full exchange of my $200 USD. That evening before leaving work, we got a call at our site office asking for me. It was the bank. Somehow, they had tracked me down and gotten our site office number, which had not been occupied for about the last 6 months. I suppose they did quite a bit of calling around to get in touch with me. They told me that four of my $20 bills were invalid. INVALID???? They sure do spend nicely here and in Canada and Mexico!!! They needed me to exchange the $80 USD back because they cannot accept bills older than 2003 series! Perhaps US banks won’t buy them back from Indonesia in fear of counterfeits. Either way, they needed them back. I tried telling them I already spent the money I exchanged, but I ‘m sure they know how hard it is to spend $1.8M Rupiah in one day, so they weren’t buying it. I went back the next day and re-exchanged the money. Since the bank’s ATM would not let me take a withdrawal on my credit card, I had to do a withdrawal on my bank card to replace this money. I really didn’t want to do this since the last time I used the ATMandiri in Soroako, I had a bunch of weird charges on my credit card when I returned. I surely didn’t want that on my actual bank account….crap! I should check my bank account