Monthly Archives: June 2006

And the answer is…

June 20, 2006 – 9:09 pm

Sorry, I don’t have the answer. It’s Tuesday evening, and I’m slowly packing up this and that, determining what I can leave here in a dehumidified plastic box. It’s no fun.
My passport remains in an unknown state. Either it gets stamped tomorrow and overnighted to me here in Makassar, or it gets [...]

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Confusion

June 13, 2006 – 7:45 pm

I received my passport back today. The supreme commander handed it over to me upon his arrival. It was supposed to be held hostage for a plate of fried rice, but he was kind to me. In the car, I thumbed through the passport to make sure things were in order. [...]

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Little Weekend

June 7, 2006 – 8:24 am

I am once again passport-less. The sneaky guys at immigration stamped my entry/exit permit to expire 5 June. The chaps at foreign affairs stamped my residency permit to expire on 30 June. I’m leaving 22 June. This happened to nearly all the Fellows in Indonesia. This all translates into six [...]

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Demonstration #5 & New Photos

June 1, 2006 – 8:21 pm

First, May 2006 photos are up in the photo album accessible in the links to your right. Secondly, another demonstration occurred today. As I pulled up on the street in the taxi, traffic was being bottlenecks by a length of bamboo. I thought they were just doing this to slow up the [...]

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