Meet Lexi/(Meet Mie)

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 Lexi Brayton, or Tentae Lexix as Sophie calls her, has a mortgage in Oakland and a dog named Lola Johnson, but that has not stopped her from descending upon this little community for her own 2-month span to take a mainstream life break like the rest of us and bask in her love of book-making and Indonesian music. 

Lexi more or less sums up the definition of badass.  Aside from being wonderfully creative when it comes to crafts for kids, she is an accomplished Gamalan player.  Gamalan—which I’m probably spelling wrong—is an instrument used in traditional Balinese music (duh).  After Tentae Lexix seemingly-unwillingly fell in love with the Balinese music community during her time at Colorado College, she spent 7 months of her life living in a small Balinese village, studying, and picking up the language.  As a result, she now speaks Indonesian better than anyone here (except for, of course, all of the Indonesians) and, five years after her first go, has returned to this country to maintain her ties to the culture and language.

With her, we are now an unstoppable Bouleh (“white person”) force of three.  I’m also thrilled for new Bay Area-based friends!  The first pictures I took of her happened to be while we were eating Mie Ayam (Noodle-Chicken Soup) at our favorite Mie Ayam Warung.  So along with meeting Lexi, you also get to meet Mie.  

Homemade noodles!