I was teaching my beginner level class how to introduce oneself these past two weeks. One of the sentences nearly all textbooks (or approximations thereof) teach is: You can call me X. This got me to thinking of nicknames I’ve carried at various points in my life.
1. Runt, The Runt: Family [...]
Initially, I thought it would be interesting to document how many rallies or demonstrations occur at the university. It’s getting rather dull. Today, students were in front of the university president’s office with bullhorn. I’m not actually sure what gets accomplished by these demonstrations, being that there are less than fifty students [...]
Once again, being the rebel computer user that I am, I get pushed out of the knowing world. I have finally gotten through to the ASDL company and got my user name etc., so that I could check my MB usage as well as throughput. Unfortunately, the nice little pop-up for MB usage [...]
Ramadan starts at sundown. You may ask why I find this interesting since it’s my third year in Indonesia. Actually, it’s the first time I haven’t been in a Christian majority city during Ramadan. The only time I knew that some students were Muslim is when they were discussing their plans to [...]
Yes, yes, yes, the students were restless this morning. They blocked the entrance to the university. One student was standing on a wooden chair taken from a classroom and using a bullhorn. No one would tell me what the reason for the demonstration. As I left in the evening, I saw [...]