Tuesday, 12Dec06
Highlights: embassy, computer, Brook is back
I think I came to life sometime around the noon hour, and immediately set about getting up to the embassy, to be assured of internet access that can reach all my bosses and the Marine Corps finance folks in Virginia.
Internet is hard down at the house, once again. =/ Did I mention that internet sucks here in Indonesia yet?
My ojek driver is funny. He took me up to the embassy (a 45minute trek through Jakarta traffic by scooter, which would have been an hour & a half by car) for $3. And then offered to sit there & wait for me to finish my business for the opportunity to get $3 more for the ride home. Ok! I told him I didn’t know how long I would be inside, so no worries if he wanted to go home.
I talked to the boss a while; to the boss’s boss a while; got all my travel claims & digital files sent off to all the right people in America… and emerged from the embassy around closing time, (6pm).
My ojek driver had juuuuust left at 5:50pm. (= When he found out later he had just missed me, he called me twice to apologize! (= Poor guy felt guilty.
That’s what I don’t understand about Indonesia… he sat around for 5 hours,,, missed me by 10 minutes, and “he” feels guilty?
I had another ojek within 30 seconds. Not halfway into the ride home though, the sky opened up with a furious downpour. Rainy season is finally here!
We pulled off to the side of the road to wait it out under a crowded ATM awning… then I figured I’d just grab dinner next door while I waited, and take a cab home. No worries!
My old roommate Brook is back for a few days before he heads up to Banda Aceh in his new position with the American Red Cross office there. I think he’s 2nd in command or something… A permanent job in Indonesia, which is something he really wanted- so I’m glad for him! (= good to see him again.
Update on the Aceh elections: by all preliminary counts, the popular former GAM rebel leader Irwandi Yusuf & M. Nazar won by a landslide 39%. There was almost no violence reported at the voting facilities, and so far, very few calls of voting fraud, intimidation, or election rigging. That’s great news for Aceh.
Highlights: embassy, computer, Brook is back
I think I came to life sometime around the noon hour, and immediately set about getting up to the embassy, to be assured of internet access that can reach all my bosses and the Marine Corps finance folks in Virginia.
Internet is hard down at the house, once again. =/ Did I mention that internet sucks here in Indonesia yet?
My ojek driver is funny. He took me up to the embassy (a 45minute trek through Jakarta traffic by scooter, which would have been an hour & a half by car) for $3. And then offered to sit there & wait for me to finish my business for the opportunity to get $3 more for the ride home. Ok! I told him I didn’t know how long I would be inside, so no worries if he wanted to go home.
I talked to the boss a while; to the boss’s boss a while; got all my travel claims & digital files sent off to all the right people in America… and emerged from the embassy around closing time, (6pm).
My ojek driver had juuuuust left at 5:50pm. (= When he found out later he had just missed me, he called me twice to apologize! (= Poor guy felt guilty.
That’s what I don’t understand about Indonesia… he sat around for 5 hours,,, missed me by 10 minutes, and “he” feels guilty?
I had another ojek within 30 seconds. Not halfway into the ride home though, the sky opened up with a furious downpour. Rainy season is finally here!
We pulled off to the side of the road to wait it out under a crowded ATM awning… then I figured I’d just grab dinner next door while I waited, and take a cab home. No worries!
My old roommate Brook is back for a few days before he heads up to Banda Aceh in his new position with the American Red Cross office there. I think he’s 2nd in command or something… A permanent job in Indonesia, which is something he really wanted- so I’m glad for him! (= good to see him again.
Update on the Aceh elections: by all preliminary counts, the popular former GAM rebel leader Irwandi Yusuf & M. Nazar won by a landslide 39%. There was almost no violence reported at the voting facilities, and so far, very few calls of voting fraud, intimidation, or election rigging. That’s great news for Aceh.
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