I nearly went bonkers this week. We ran six days of workshop with two different groups. I did the last three days myself. That’s about 7 hours a day on my feet. Of course, I wasn’t mumbling along the whole time as that would have been pedagogically unsound. Besides, I [...]
I’m still nose-deep in the pie of life here. Work is still at my fingertips as I write this. The last week has been a bit of folly. One workshop suffered a three-hour loss of electricity and caused the classrooms to be nothing short of a sauna in only tens of minutes. [...]
I’ve been a busy bugger here as of late. Between that and the worsening phone line in my house, the internet just hasn’t been as fun as it should be. Blogging has been frustrating. Anything online has been frustrating. C’est la vie.
I’m off to the Big Durian (Jakarta) on Thursday. [...]
I was sitting at the photo lab in the mall because my photos were not yet done. I was waiting. The photo lab also has a back room with special equipment for those special photos of kids and couples. This time there were four women in the room. They must have [...]
I was walking out to fetch a taxi a few early mornings ago and came across another foreigner on his morning walk. What he was doing walking down my dead-end street, I don’t rightly know. The other man looked up and, with shock on his face, said, “Amazing.” I thought that was [...]