December 13, 2007 – 10:13 pm
Upon returning from Jakarta and the wacky plane monsoon time plane flights in which the planes dodge the clouds by cutting through the sky at strange angles, I was met by a dirty apartment and the feeling that I was slammed into by a speeding becak. A good ten days with colleagues and in [...]
December 3, 2007 – 4:12 am
I came down to Jakarta last Friday amid some miscommunications. Anyhow, I looked in the newspaper yesterday to find out that the domestic terminal of the Medan airport in North Sumatra burned up. I have to transit in this airport for any domestic flight out of Banda Aceh! Medan is the third [...]
November 22, 2007 – 10:00 pm
The excitement is little here. I travelled to and from Medan, the coordinator of my program came for a visit, the Big Boss will come next week (but will be travelling somewhere else in the province), and I’ve been assigned two more classes because someone left mid-term for another job! Next week, I’ll [...]
November 16, 2007 – 9:07 am
I’m sitting in the hotel lobby, tapping into intermittent wi-fi, and having a cappuncino. I get a text message from a colleague that she just looked in her colleagues copy of the schedule for the upcoming national tefl conference. She, myself, and another guy all submitted proposals for the conference in late September and [...]
November 8, 2007 – 10:11 pm
These postings are getting far and few between, but that means nothing. A groove has been found, perhaps even a rut, that doesn’t include a speedy connection to the internet. It has gotten so terrifically slow that I can’t arrive after 10a and get anything done. Thus, I’ve only been checking email [...]