Time is sliding by here. The afternoon, I’m learning, is the worst time to access the internet. It gets terribly slow and the major email providers get bogged down. It’s no fun. Now, add that to having to print out credit card records for expense report purposes and I may just [...]
I’ve taught all my classes for the week and am sitting on a square meter of vinyl flooring set on some ceramic tile in a small cube typing this up. Only a few of the cubes at the internet shop have chairs. I didn’t get lucky today.
Ramadan has started here and I have [...]
With the exception of the earthquake near Padang and Bengkulu that I did not feel, the past days have gone by without incident. My counterpart took me to look for bicycles that I did not buy. Instead, he offered up an old clunker that looked perfect to me. The air in the [...]
No, I didn’t feel the earthquake that happened yesterday and gave a great shake along the western coast of Sumatra in the south. A colleague of mine happened to be in an affected area. Welcome to Indonesia. Thanks for checking;)
I don’t even know where to start up with this post. I’m my first internet shop in Banda Aceh near campus. It took me almost a week to get here. My digs this time are fine and Spartan. There are a few wrinkles that are still being ironed out. It’s [...]