I haven’t posted in a while because not a whole lot is happening. I bought a cheap bike to start riding on since my mornings runs just aren’t enough for me anymore. I received an email asking me to determine my return date on my ticket–which I have no idea of as I [...]
January 27, 2008 – 9:22 pm
Last week, I observed my first thesis defense here. A requirement for graduation for all undergraduates here is the writing of a thesis. Most of the students in the education department perform some sort of classroom research, write it up, and make a defense with three faculty members grilling them. It’s quite [...]
January 27, 2008 – 9:20 pm
Another excessive holiday post (unless you’re going to north Sumatra, then you might be interested):
Once again, I found myself with a gap of days in which I wasn’t going to teach, so I arranged to meet up with some colleagues in Medan to head to places as yet explored by me. I met up [...]
January 26, 2008 – 4:08 am
Eventually, one finds the ego boosting area on the Wordpress interface interesting. Today, I find out I’m being link to as part of Top 100 Indonesian blogs (in English). Keep scrolling until you hit number 80. Wooooo!
Got back last week from more orangutan visiting in Bukit Lawang and my first visit to [...]
January 3, 2008 – 9:58 pm
*Warning* excessive vacation post
Ten days of vacation: check.
Six flights: check.
Being arms-length from an orangutan: check.
Five hour jungle trek on Borneo: check.
A couple hours on a bamboo raft: check.
Ten hour bus ride: check.
Christmas karaoke: check.
Good company: check
That was my holiday, briefly. I’ve got some decent photos that I’ll put up somewhere soon.