Monday, 3July06
Highlights: school, warung steak & shake, south Yogya with John
Today was a catching-up day. I got most of my weekend adventures written down last night, but it took a while to upload the pics,,, and the pics from Borobudur were worth a bit of effort to show you guys. Took a few hours.
I could get to school on my own for the first time this morning though! Loved that.
Got the test results back from Friday too,,, we did pretty well.
Sinta (my tutor) and I went for “steak & shake” lunch today. The rib-eye was thick as a cd case, and covered with enough gravy to qualify as steak soup,, with mushrooms on top. It was ok. When 2 lunches cost $3.50, can you really complain?
After school, John Auchard, the U. Maryland English prof / Post reporter, gave a call, and we had a drink near his hotel in the Malioboro district; the part of town most popular with Australian & American ex-pats and tourists. It’s pretty far south, and I hadn’t seen this part of town.
Three things jumped out at me down there:
There’s a fair amount of earthquake damage prevalent in the south part of town that I don’t see on the north side, where I live.
There are quite a few “bule” westerners walking around. Up north, we are few and far between.
All the museums, art galleries, and bars are down here.
John mentioned he was prepared to see attitudes of anti-American hostility on the faces of most Indonesians as he was preparing to come here; but after 3 weeks, the consensus from both our experiences here are that it doesn’t exist. Indonesians are the friendliest people.
Down in Bantul, a few weeks ago, we saw a 13 year old kid wearing an Osama bin Laden t-shirt, as he was riding his bike around the rubble of the home that our whole USINDO group was cleaning up. He didn’t seem to make the connection between his shirt, and a group of 13 Americans working to clean up the fallen bricks of his neighbor’s house. It was just a shirt to him; though it looked strange to us.
Highlights: school, warung steak & shake, south Yogya with John
Today was a catching-up day. I got most of my weekend adventures written down last night, but it took a while to upload the pics,,, and the pics from Borobudur were worth a bit of effort to show you guys. Took a few hours.
I could get to school on my own for the first time this morning though! Loved that.
Got the test results back from Friday too,,, we did pretty well.
Sinta (my tutor) and I went for “steak & shake” lunch today. The rib-eye was thick as a cd case, and covered with enough gravy to qualify as steak soup,, with mushrooms on top. It was ok. When 2 lunches cost $3.50, can you really complain?
After school, John Auchard, the U. Maryland English prof / Post reporter, gave a call, and we had a drink near his hotel in the Malioboro district; the part of town most popular with Australian & American ex-pats and tourists. It’s pretty far south, and I hadn’t seen this part of town.
Three things jumped out at me down there:
There’s a fair amount of earthquake damage prevalent in the south part of town that I don’t see on the north side, where I live.
There are quite a few “bule” westerners walking around. Up north, we are few and far between.
All the museums, art galleries, and bars are down here.
John mentioned he was prepared to see attitudes of anti-American hostility on the faces of most Indonesians as he was preparing to come here; but after 3 weeks, the consensus from both our experiences here are that it doesn’t exist. Indonesians are the friendliest people.
Down in Bantul, a few weeks ago, we saw a 13 year old kid wearing an Osama bin Laden t-shirt, as he was riding his bike around the rubble of the home that our whole USINDO group was cleaning up. He didn’t seem to make the connection between his shirt, and a group of 13 Americans working to clean up the fallen bricks of his neighbor’s house. It was just a shirt to him; though it looked strange to us.
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