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Indonesia: Life In The Islands: September 2006
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands. Wednesday, September 27, 2006. Will Wonders Never Cease? I'm going to try to get to Ubud while I'm there to attend some sessions of the Ubus Writer's Festival. Hotels should be about $4/night. Unplanned vacations and amazingly low prices- who wouldn't love Indonesia? Posted by Caitlin @ 4:41 PM. Retreat From Sanity, Part Deux. Laughing at schoolbuses, SMA 3 transported 900 kids 2 hours up a mountain in 22 military convoy trucks. That was allowed and even preferable. Wardro...
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands: December 2006
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands. Thursday, December 21, 2006. So here's the plan for Kunkel Christmas 2006 Indonesia:. December 23: My parents and sisters leave New York. December 25: They arrive in Bali at noon. December 26: We fly on some bootleg little airline to Surabaya and brave the lumpur panas. To get to Malang. December 27-29: Go to my school, get stared at. December 29: DRIVE back to Bali, arrive in Ubud around midnight. January 1st: 9 am they leave for New York again. Posted by Caitlin @ 8:51 PM.
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands: March 2007
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands. Sunday, March 18, 2007. Times are kind of low here right now.so I'm going to post some pictures of a few of my favorite memories of Indonesia so far. This little girl lived at a halfway house for abandoned children in Surabaya that I visited on Thanksgiving. The kids were adorable. For some reason they loved to throw these up. Who knows where they learned it. Riding ponies had always been a passion of mine.outside a temple at Gunung Bromo. Posted by Caitlin @ 3:27 PM.
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands: November 2006
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands. Thursday, November 30, 2006. Yes, I'm Available for Hire. I’ve been trying to complete my grad school applications for a few days now and the final push has been the most difficult. Knowing myself, I read all the magazines in my house and hid my DVDs so I wouldn’t be tempted. I eliminated all food so there would be no snack breaks. In theory, I should be forced to complete my essays just from a sheer lack of anything better to do. Very quickly, I realized I’d used too much...
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands: February 2007
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands. Sunday, February 25, 2007. These Are A Few Of My Most Hated Things. Two, to be exact. Daily life as a bulé in Indonesia has its annoyances (see, An Indonesian Day, below), but I’ve been able to get used to/basically ignore a lot of them like the tendency for people to be an hour late for meetings, the staring, the comments about my weight, skin tone, and outfits but these two are quickly growing to be unbearable. Ant stompin’ is a fun little game I’ve created where I put o...
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands: May 2007
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands. Tuesday, May 29, 2007. I've written about this before, but for the last year there has been hot mud flowing from the ground in Sidoarjo, East Java. Both the government and Lapindo, the company that was drilling at the mud site, refuse to take responsibility for the victims or the material damage they've suffered. Thousands of refugees have lost everything they own and nothing is being done to aid them. Here. Is an article from today's Jakarta Post about the refugees.
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands: October 2006
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands. Monday, October 23, 2006. Swimming With The Fishes. After a week of last minute decisions involving shuttle vans and boat rides, I've found myself on Lombok, the island to the west of Bali. Tomorrow we're taking a boat to the Gili Islands to get scuba certified, which may or may not be a good idea. We'll see! Posted by Caitlin @ 1:08 PM. Sunday, October 15, 2006. From the Jakarta Post:. Unease in Aceh as Morality Police Crack Down. All of us girls were crying. Purnama is a...
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands: April 2007
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands. Thursday, April 12, 2007. So incredibly long story short, due to the problems at my school with the vice-principal sexually harassing me (and the chain of events it set off), I have left Indonesia permanently and am now in Thailand unitl April 24th. Labels: out of indonesia. Posted by Caitlin @ 7:06 PM. I'm spending 10 months in Indonesia teaching English to high schoolers, trying to learn Bahasa Indonesia, and traveling as much as possible. Malang, East Java, Indonesia.
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands: August 2006
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Indonesia: Life In The Islands. Sunday, August 27, 2006. August 17- Indonesian Independence Day. The last few weeks the city has been putting up tons of Indonesian flags (red and white), banners, and signs. August 17th marks the 61st year since the country won independence from the Netherlands. We had the day off from orientation (thank god! Posted by Caitlin @ 12:20 PM. For the last month, we've been going to AMINEF (American Indonesia Exchange Foundation) in Balai Pustaka to learn about culture, teachi...