My Advanced Speaking students have been working in groups all semester to research and present information on places of interest in our city. Their midterm is to give me tours of their sites. One group of students chose Wonderia, the local amusement park. After they finished the formal tour we all went on rides together [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Semarang’
Step right up!
Posted in Indonesia 2009-2010, tagged carnival, culture, Semarang on April 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A Typical Tuesday
Posted in Indonesia 2009-2010, tagged culture shock, dance, Semarang on April 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
It’s time for another installment of “a day in Stephanie’s Indonesian life.” 7:00 am. I get up. I don’t teach any classes on Tuesdays and could sleep in, but my body is just used to getting up about this time. It rained last night, so I know there will be puddles of water on my [...]
What began as a trip to a salon…
Posted in Indonesia 2009-2010, tagged Semarang on October 6, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One of the secretaries in the English Department (Lestari) invited me to go to a spa/salon with her last Sunday for a cream bath, which I had been dying to try. This mis-named extravagance is basically a head and neck treatment in which your hair is loaded with conditioner/cream and then massaged for 30-60 minutes. [...]
more news from the homefront
Posted in Indonesia 2009-2010, tagged housing, Semarang on September 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
We’ve had a heavy down pour the last two evenings, and I have now discovered a few things: I’ve got one small leak in my living room, and what looks like another one developing in the bedroom. I live in a nice complex, definitely a development for people of a higher socio-economic status. But it [...]
