The semester finally began this week albeit in a limited form. In addition to the classes I teach at the language center, I was scheduled to teach three other classes this week. I taught one of the three due to unforeseen circumstances. The Applied Linguistics class I was to teach is an [...]
Both the Chinese and Islamic new years went off without a hitch. Two days off for most of the country. I spent a couple days getting some rest and took a short ride south along the coast. Friday was a short day as many of the students did not come for the speaking assessment. Would [...]
The monsoon has arrived over the archipelago (with the exception of certain places that, for geographic reasons, don’t have the luck to attract the rains). Jakarta is seeing its annual floodings and the squatters along the coastline are those being tormented. It seems that despite the Dutch colonizing Indonesia for many years they [...]
Last Friday, instead of going to work, I took a tour of the area with a couple guys (Sony & Ferry) from work. We started off round 9.30a and rode up through winding roads. The winding roads reminded me of Nepal but without all the potholes and landslides to cross. It was [...]