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Palembangin': April 2010
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9 months in Palembang, South Sumatra in Indonesia on a Fulbright. Friday, April 30, 2010. Oops, my apologies. Rudi’s behavior isn’t uncommon at all, though. All of my teachers smack students when they talk out of turn or play with their Rubik’s Cubes instead of listening. After a particularly frustrating class, I came back to the teachers’ lounge and said I was having some serious trouble getting kids to pay attention. “You have to pinch them,” Sry says. The thing is, it doesn’t. So I said thanks, but he...
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Palembangin': December 2009
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9 months in Palembang, South Sumatra in Indonesia on a Fulbright. Saturday, December 26, 2009. A bathroom blog. Toilet talk? Please accept my sincerest apologies, because I have been holding out on you. It occurred to me recently that I have yet to share with you the mildly terrifying adventure that is Indonesian bathrooms. I should have known some bathroom challenge was looming in my future long before I set foot in this country. Does that imply something about other toilets? I think I shrugged. A porce...
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Palembangin': Marhabah celebration
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9 months in Palembang, South Sumatra in Indonesia on a Fulbright. Sunday, May 23, 2010. Just five days left in Palembang, and I’m still having new experiences every day. Well, not. Day, but close. This weekend I went to a Marhabah celebration at Rudi’s family’s house. As a reminder, Rudi is another English teacher at my school. Technically, that’s when you’re supposed to have the ceremony, too—when the baby is a week old. But most people cut the baby’s hair off at a week and w...The ceremony at Rudi̵...
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Palembangin': The Final Score
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9 months in Palembang, South Sumatra in Indonesia on a Fulbright. Friday, June 11, 2010. I’m home now. It’s wonderful and a little sad at the same time. My friend Jeff Laub sent me Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods, about hiking the Appalachian Trail, and being home reminds me a little of Bryson’s experience when he and his friend finally decided to go home:. 8220;‘Do you want to get a Coke? 8217; I said to Katz. There was a machine by the gas station door. 1 Take lots of pictures. Well, I’m not fl...
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Palembangin': October 2009
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9 months in Palembang, South Sumatra in Indonesia on a Fulbright. Wednesday, October 28, 2009. There is a bug hiding under my 4 key. Want to watch me try to kill him? He isn’t dead. He’s trying to make it to 5. He’s mocking me. Which leads me to an interesting question: why are there so many bugs on my desk? Yeah, the cockroaches and lizards suck, but I think everyone here will agree that the real nasty things are the tiny little ants. Thankfully, for the most part, they go where the food is. Obviously, ...
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Palembangin': SAFARI!
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9 months in Palembang, South Sumatra in Indonesia on a Fulbright. Friday, June 11, 2010. There's a Komodo dragon in the middle there. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. People who have good taste. Read these blogs, too. Confessions of an ELF in Indonesia. First Underwater Photos Published! The last of the pics. Seek Grasp. Teach. Some 10,220 Miles. Adventure is the best way to learn: a year in indonesia. The sorrows of a wanderlust. Finally, Another Post!
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Palembangin': February 2010
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9 months in Palembang, South Sumatra in Indonesia on a Fulbright. Friday, February 26, 2010. They took everything.". The flash on my digital camera hadn’t been working very well, so after Christmas Mom sent me back with one of her old cameras. I loaned it to my Indonesian friend Yanti for a family visit she’d recently made, and I met up with her on Wednesday night to get it back. Luckily, she’d forgotten to bring it. The night was pretty typical. We decided to stop by 15 minutes. Yanti and I like to sing...
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Palembangin': March 2010
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9 months in Palembang, South Sumatra in Indonesia on a Fulbright. Wednesday, March 17, 2010. Bumpy buses and violent volcanoes. As Christine put it, and I'm paraphrasing a little, "This is an endless summer filled with endless bus rides." So true. What's wrong with me? We had to fix that. Rie made this. It's a reference to the fact. That our "four-hour" trip took seven. We arrived hungry, tired, and thankful. We at least made it in time for the sunset. It doesn't look so scary now, does it? We watched mo...
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Palembangin': Smart FM Radio
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9 months in Palembang, South Sumatra in Indonesia on a Fulbright. Monday, May 24, 2010. Every Saturday we’re in Palembang, Raj and I do an hour-long radio show called “Smart Up your Life.” The US Embassy in Jakarta sponsors the program, and they pick a weekly topic and send us a five-minute long sketch we play on the air. Testing, testing. 1, 2, 3. We have topics like:. Why don’t Americans like to make small talk with people on the street like Indonesians do? Are Indonesians being rude when they walk up ...
