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Notes from an Archipelago: The Best of Indonesia, Part 2
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Notes from an Archipelago. Nine months teaching English in Indonesia on a Fulbright grant. Friday, April 29, 2011. The Best of Indonesia, Part 2. The utterly incompetent driver chatters, smokes and texts as we hurtle down the road, taking every mountside zig and zag as if he believes the bus to be a descendant of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang that will sail cheerfully off the cliff to safety. Passing a truck, we come within inches of a head-on collision; I clutch my seat, gasping " Jesus Christ. I meet an Indo...
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Notes from an Archipelago: Food for Thought
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Notes from an Archipelago. Nine months teaching English in Indonesia on a Fulbright grant. Thursday, February 24, 2011. In my first days in Amurang, I would get fed up by how often teachers, neighbors and strangers wanted me to talk about food. Are you hungry? Did you have bread or rice for breakfast? Do you like Indonesian food? What kind of fish do you like- kelelawar. What kind of bananas do you like- king, shoe, milk, horn? Was a mound of pale vegetables slathered with a chunky brown sludge that remi...
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Notes from an Archipelago: The Best of Indonesia
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Notes from an Archipelago. Nine months teaching English in Indonesia on a Fulbright grant. Tuesday, April 26, 2011. The Best of Indonesia. Just when you think this wild and unpredictable country can't surprise you anymore. You see sunset over the Togian Islands. April 26, 2011 at 9:17 PM. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). The Best of Indonesia, Part 2. The Best of Indonesia. Amurang, North Sulawesi, Indonesia. View my complete profile. Great Blogs by Other Indo ETAs. A Paige a Day. Good Morning, Maluku!
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Notes from an Archipelago: March 2011
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Notes from an Archipelago. Nine months teaching English in Indonesia on a Fulbright grant. Tuesday, March 29, 2011. The beach in front of my house is dirty. I mean really, really dirty. First there's the black sand. Sure, black sand isn't intrinsically dirty, and the fact that it's made up of ancient grains of lava is neat, but I challenge you to look at a beach of black sand and think "sunbathing! Some fishermen joined me on the beach for half an hour; we exchanged friendly hellos. A few neighbors w...
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Notes from an Archipelago: September 2010
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Notes from an Archipelago. Nine months teaching English in Indonesia on a Fulbright grant. Sunday, September 12, 2010. On Friday, I rode on the back of an ojek. Taxi-motorcycle) for the first time- in a skirt and without a helmet. It was terrifying and fantastic, but it wasn't the craziest thing I did this week. I also paid 50,000 rupiah to have a swarm of tiny fish nibble my feet. It was a spa procedure called Dr. Fish. Leif, the belligerent ex, interrupts the ceremony. Wednesday, September 8, 2010.
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Jack in Indonesia: October 2010
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A Year on a Fulbright Grant to Surabaya, Indonesia. Sunday, October 31, 2010. This week I received literally dozens of messages wondering if I was affected by either the earthquake, tsunami or one of two volcanic eruptions that struck Indonesia recently. Luckily, I wasn't. Thank you all so much for the concern. Population: 240, 000, 000 (making it the fourth most populous country on earth, behind China, India and the US). Number of Islands: 17,500. Independence in 1945 after 350 years of Dutch rule.
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Notes from an Archipelago: Day Tripper
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Notes from an Archipelago. Nine months teaching English in Indonesia on a Fulbright grant. Wednesday, March 16, 2011. On this particular day we visited a cemetery, a sister-in-law's house, a playground, a lake, a mall and a roadside pineapple stand, but no coffee plantation. To be fair: the teachers did pull the car over at one point and say, "Look, Polly, coffee trees! It was a lovely day, and if nothing was what I expected, so much the better. One of my co-teachers' husband's grave, which we visited.
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Notes from an Archipelago: February 2011
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Notes from an Archipelago. Nine months teaching English in Indonesia on a Fulbright grant. Thursday, February 24, 2011. In my first days in Amurang, I would get fed up by how often teachers, neighbors and strangers wanted me to talk about food. Are you hungry? Did you have bread or rice for breakfast? Do you like Indonesian food? What kind of fish do you like- kelelawar. What kind of bananas do you like- king, shoe, milk, horn? Was a mound of pale vegetables slathered with a chunky brown sludge that remi...
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Notes from an Archipelago: October 2010
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Notes from an Archipelago. Nine months teaching English in Indonesia on a Fulbright grant. Tuesday, October 19, 2010. Week Five: Top Five. Over the past month I’ve been to one wedding, two funerals, four birthday parties, two traditional markets, six malls, one scout camp, one beach barbecue and more dinners at friends’ houses—and by friends, I mostly mean strangers who want to become friends with the bule. Top Five I’m-So-Not-In-Kansas-Anymore Experiences. One of Amurang's many bendis. 8221; He was the ...
