The end of the May. Memorial Day has come and gone for most of the people who take a look at this; summer has officially started. My summer hasn’t ended for the past two years. Things could definitely be worse.
Today was commencement at UIN Alauddin. We had a moment of silence [...]
Last Friday, my counterpart/caretaker at the university convinced me to take a ‘little trip’ out to a pesantren* in Bone regency for an English camp. On the map, it is something like a quarter of the distance to Tana Toraja. I was also told it would take three or four hours. Again, I [...]
First, it was the activity of the volcano Merapi; now, it’s a 6.2 earthquake that has made the front page of the New York Times online edition. I didn’t know about any of this until around three in the afternoon–nearly ten hours after it happened. If any of you are still geographically challenged, [...]
Apa karreba? Ok, you’ve already learned how to say, ‘How are you?’ in Makassar language. The answer: Baji-baji ji. A little reduplication for the linguists ; )
Anyhow, my financial manager, my brother Jim, has acquired a 250cc motocycle on my behalf. It’s small, sure, but that’s the beauty of it. [...]
Today is a holiday according to the Christian faith. I don’t ever remember having this holiday off in the US. Perhaps, it is the effort of a pluralist society to even up the holidays of the religions granted legal status in Indonesia. Oddly, in a city of 80% Muslims, most of the [...]