October 2, 2007 – 11:33 pm
I don’t really know where to start on this post. I’ve been in Banda Aceh almost five weeks and my mind is chock-full of things that I’ve wanted to tell people who have asked specific questions, as well as certain happenings that reflect the current mood and what-not of Aceh in the news.
Banda Aceh [...]
September 28, 2007 – 4:14 am
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 [...]
September 20, 2007 – 6:22 am
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 [...]
September 6, 2007 – 4:13 am
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 [...]
August 23, 2007 – 7:19 am
I woke up to an email sent around 1.30a this morning. It was my flight itinerary. I’ll be leaving Saturday night and arriving in Jakarta on Monday. The only thing that changes this time is the carrier. The past three years I was booked on United and have banked up some [...]