Monday, 13Nov06
Highlights: just putting some sense of order together again, supporting Vita’s education, watched disturbing video “Iraq Fighting Back”
In my efforts to be a better Marine FAO, I should be turning out more trip reports,,, faster. Finding time to write is tough. It’s a vicious circle: balancing time attached to the computer, with time getting out the front door & experiencing as much of Indonesia as I can in the limited time I have to be here.
I visited the ATM & gave Eli & Vita 1 Million Rupiah ($100) towards Vita’s 8th grade education & books. Mom could only afford to buy ½ of her books last week, while I was gone. That should get her through 6 more months without mom & dad visiting the pawn shop again.
Speaking of pawning things, I flipped-in a video I bought the other day at the Campus Mosque in Yogya for $2… just to see what was selling. It looked like a Playstation game at first. Pretty disturbing stuff. I’m a little surprised you can pick this up so easily,,, at a mosque in Yogya. This one amounts to propaganda to join the jihadis, as home video is spun together of Iraqis killing Americans. Aside from this, I personally haven’t seen anything on UGM campus so openly anti-American or violent. I got through 20 minutes before I had to turn it off.
Highlights: just putting some sense of order together again, supporting Vita’s education, watched disturbing video “Iraq Fighting Back”
In my efforts to be a better Marine FAO, I should be turning out more trip reports,,, faster. Finding time to write is tough. It’s a vicious circle: balancing time attached to the computer, with time getting out the front door & experiencing as much of Indonesia as I can in the limited time I have to be here.
I visited the ATM & gave Eli & Vita 1 Million Rupiah ($100) towards Vita’s 8th grade education & books. Mom could only afford to buy ½ of her books last week, while I was gone. That should get her through 6 more months without mom & dad visiting the pawn shop again.
Speaking of pawning things, I flipped-in a video I bought the other day at the Campus Mosque in Yogya for $2… just to see what was selling. It looked like a Playstation game at first. Pretty disturbing stuff. I’m a little surprised you can pick this up so easily,,, at a mosque in Yogya. This one amounts to propaganda to join the jihadis, as home video is spun together of Iraqis killing Americans. Aside from this, I personally haven’t seen anything on UGM campus so openly anti-American or violent. I got through 20 minutes before I had to turn it off.
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