Friday, 11Aug06
Highlights: final exam, dress rehearsal, closing ceremonies
Well… walking into finals is always an interesting experience. I probably could have studied a little harder- but you walk in knowing what you know, & give it your best shot. 4 ½ hours later, we all walked out with varying expressions of mental bruises on our faces. Ha ha. (=
After class, I met one of the students from Jogja State University who asked me to volunteer as a native English speaker with a local high-school who is doing their month-long community service (KKN) in Bantul. She wants me to lead a debate session for two hours. Sure! No problem. I can pick the subject,,, ok. (I’m thinking I’ll use one of our daily subjects from conversation class),, and then Indah says, “well actually- they’re interested in talking about free sex & the difference between making love & sex”. Um,, what?
So, I’m a little scared,,, but always ready to talk about whatever subject comes up! Ha ha. So on Tuesday, I’ll be facing 80 tenth graders, honing their debating skills on the rich topic of sex. I can imagine my first words… “Hi! My name is Jonathan… Nice to meet you! So,,, sex!... what a rich & interesting subject. Anyone catholic? Ok good!... wait till marriage” ha ha.
We got our “official” summer t-shirts, and went down to the hotel for one final dress-rehearsal before our Gamelan performance at the closing ceremonies tonight. Finally! The moment Dan & Eric was waiting for… an opportunity to drink a few bottles of Bintang & smoke while knocking the gongs around (= ha ha. Looked like it was worth the wait.
We got as dappered up as possible, sporting batik sarongs with our USINDO t-shirts, as all of our host families, teachers, tutors, USINDO and UGM staff came together at hotel Santika & started the evening together. It was fun.
The batik class (Christian, Karen & Tandi) put our class shirts together + the blue “class of ‘06” banner. The tarian dance class (Jessica & Tandi) performed a Balinese dance in their beautiful costumes; and the gamelan troop (all of us) performed a gamelan show while Bryan & Ibu Rose (the dayang “puppetmasters”) wielded the leather shadow puppets, reading in ancient Javanese the whole time. (I didn’t understand a word, but they said them well! Ha ha) They both did great.
The night was ¾ fun, ¼ sadness that these are our last days together.
Highlights: final exam, dress rehearsal, closing ceremonies
Well… walking into finals is always an interesting experience. I probably could have studied a little harder- but you walk in knowing what you know, & give it your best shot. 4 ½ hours later, we all walked out with varying expressions of mental bruises on our faces. Ha ha. (=
After class, I met one of the students from Jogja State University who asked me to volunteer as a native English speaker with a local high-school who is doing their month-long community service (KKN) in Bantul. She wants me to lead a debate session for two hours. Sure! No problem. I can pick the subject,,, ok. (I’m thinking I’ll use one of our daily subjects from conversation class),, and then Indah says, “well actually- they’re interested in talking about free sex & the difference between making love & sex”. Um,, what?
So, I’m a little scared,,, but always ready to talk about whatever subject comes up! Ha ha. So on Tuesday, I’ll be facing 80 tenth graders, honing their debating skills on the rich topic of sex. I can imagine my first words… “Hi! My name is Jonathan… Nice to meet you! So,,, sex!... what a rich & interesting subject. Anyone catholic? Ok good!... wait till marriage” ha ha.
We got our “official” summer t-shirts, and went down to the hotel for one final dress-rehearsal before our Gamelan performance at the closing ceremonies tonight. Finally! The moment Dan & Eric was waiting for… an opportunity to drink a few bottles of Bintang & smoke while knocking the gongs around (= ha ha. Looked like it was worth the wait.
We got as dappered up as possible, sporting batik sarongs with our USINDO t-shirts, as all of our host families, teachers, tutors, USINDO and UGM staff came together at hotel Santika & started the evening together. It was fun.
The batik class (Christian, Karen & Tandi) put our class shirts together + the blue “class of ‘06” banner. The tarian dance class (Jessica & Tandi) performed a Balinese dance in their beautiful costumes; and the gamelan troop (all of us) performed a gamelan show while Bryan & Ibu Rose (the dayang “puppetmasters”) wielded the leather shadow puppets, reading in ancient Javanese the whole time. (I didn’t understand a word, but they said them well! Ha ha) They both did great.
The night was ¾ fun, ¼ sadness that these are our last days together.
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