I usually get up in the morning and checks the news on CNN.com. I was surprised to find out that all US Missions in Indonesia were closed as of yesterday after a large protest in connection with THE Newsweek article. Needless to say, I thought I would just tell everyone I’m fine. [...]
I finally did it. I took photos of most of the statues in Manado proper save one. The one I didn’t get was perhaps the most interesting. It was a statue promoting sports. The statue was a man clad in military dress with a holstered pistol. One fist was raised in the air similar to [...]
First of all, stop writing that nice letter to me. It will be close to not reaching me if you even wait another second. You’ll just have to tell me in person or email that you were really writing a letter to me and that it was incredibly thoughtful, insightful, and profound. I won’t believe [...]
For a month or so now I thought I would be shuffling off this paradise of Manado for a house on the east coast of Borneo but now I don’t know. My current workplace has yet to get a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ from the central office in Jakarta even though I know that it [...]