February 15, 2007 – 7:09 pm
Last week was the rousing grand opening of the English teacher resource center at the university. We had several kinks that dearly need to be ironed out for things to run smoothly, but I hope that the next workshops or trainings will keep them coming back.
The semester started this week yet my classes weren’t [...]
February 5, 2007 – 8:28 pm
The following are excerpts from a press release of the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta:
U.S. Embassy Jakarta
Warden Message
February 5, 2007
The U.S. Embassy informs Americans in Indonesia that several days of heavy rains have caused widespread flooding in and around Jakarta. As of February 5, 2007, more than 400,000 people have been left homeless by flooding. [...]
February 3, 2007 – 6:10 pm
The rains have hit Jakarta so much that it put the nation’s telecommunications onto a diesel generator! One newspaper said that 40,000 were now homeless due to the rains while another puts it at 100,000. Fuzzy math, anyone? Internet is routed through Jakarta, so I was down yesterday and still can’t access [...]
January 29, 2007 – 7:42 am
Continuing in the spirit of positivity I’m posting a link to someone else’s top ten list of living in Indonesia. I’m not saying that I agree with it all, but I do agree with most of it.
January 28, 2007 – 6:43 pm
This post is in response to a comment of the last post. I guess I might have been focusing too much on the negative. I would not be here if the situation was as negative as some would get from the things I do write about.
I’ve returned from Jakarta/Puncak today. The first [...]