Cloaked in Night’s maelstrom,
Prosodies invade your soul,
Urging on self-truths.
Yogyakarta was great. I saw the sights I missed the first time around, ate some good food, drank some beer (but not too much). I also went to a Christian wedding. I wish I would have taken some pictures or The Last Supper mural [...]
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 [...]
*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.
This week had been quite normal until yesterday. I have a speaking class for fourth semester students and they were giving process speeches. Most were pretty humdrum; some were well-planned, some were not. The best topic of the class so far (two are to go next week) was “how to rid someone [...]
It’s Good Friday and the university is off. There is also a conference co-sponsored and coordinated by UIN Alauddin on Gender and Women in the Era of Globalization. There are some speakers here from a university in Hamburg, Germany doing the honors as well. It’s a cool 250,000 for the three day [...]