Hello my lovelies! I am missing you all lots and lots, but I am ESPECIALLY missing those of you who continue to leave me comments. I really, really love reading the comments...even if it does make me miss you all even more!
Amy - umm yea it totally does sound like something your Uncle Tony would do. Blah. Can you imagine if we had lived with them last year? As for breaking up my stay, I'm not sure if I'll be able to. I have to go to Singapore soon here, so after I get my Visa and after I start classes I'll know more. And I would LOVE to meet up with you! Oh my goodness I miss you so much, even if I don't have "Could I interest you in some Chinese?" post-its in my room. I do, however, have lots of cecak-cecak (house lizards), which is like practically the same thing. It would be cool to meet up in Beijing or Hong Kong, whichever. Do I need a Visa for Hong Kong?
Mom - thanks so much for the comments. I'm already over the whole Ria thing. I've only seen her once since the whole thing went down, so yea. No worries.
On a much happier note, Happy Birthday Tammy!!
Okay, so here we go with a little update on my most recent activities...
This past weekend we all went to Pasir Putih, a lovely little beach about 3 hours away from Malang, in a little town called Situbondo. We left on Saturday afternoon after my class (yes, I teach on Saturdays...and I'm loving it!) and drove up in 2 cars. There were 13 of us sharing a little cottage. It was hilarious - my host sister and I shared a twin bed. And she's a kicker! Oh my goodness is she a violent sleeper. Amy and Alyse, I'm pretty sure she's worse than both of you put together! And boy do I have the bruises to prove it. It was fine, though.
So on Sunday we all woke up bright and early and played on the beach. We went out in a kayak, we did some fishing and went out on a big sailboat. It was lots of fun!! Then for lunch we headed out to Bondowoso, a little village near Pasir Putih where my host family has some extended family. We ate lunch and chatted a bit about the possibility of extending LE Indonesia all the way out to Bondowoso, so that was good. It was lots of fun.
After watching the beautiful sunset over the beach on Sunday evening, we all piled back into the cars and headed back home. The journey was kind of long and by the time we got back home at 10:30pm, I still hadn't planned my lesson for the next day. So I stayed up until a little past midnight lesson planning. It was rough when the alarm went off at 6am the next morning, let me tell you!
So I've just been teaching all this week, enjoying my students and having fun with them. Ainsley has now started teaching with me, so we split up the class into 8th grade and 9th grade. I took the 9th graders and Ainsley took the 8th graders because she's much better with younger students. So now I've only got like 10 students - which is great because the kids will get more one-on-one attention and probably get more out of the class.
(This part is for you specifically, Mom...) So on Monday I went to Klentheng with my short gay dancing crush. Ainsley was really sick with some stomach thing, so just I went with Prido. And I got to meet his Mom, which was so cute. She's adorable - she's probably like 4'10". She invited me to come to their home and go to her class (she's a 2nd grade teacher), so I'm really excited about that! The gamelan was, of course, lots of fun - I played for about an hour and after playing this one song that required a ridiculous amount of concentration I had to bow out. My brain was absolutely fried, so Prido and I walked a bit to go get some "terang bulan" which literally means "bright month," but it's just this really yummy Indonesian pastry. So after that, he took me home and guess what. I figured out that he's NOT gay! Woohoo!! He made a comment about driving his motorcycle slow so that he could look at girls and stargaze. Fabulous! Ah, he's so cute...
Anyway. Tonight we are going to Brandon's host parents 19th wedding anniversary party. All the volunteers are going to be there and all kinds of random Chinese people we don't know, which is of course going to be awesome!
Then this Sunday after church we are going to go meet my idol. Just kidding! There's this American woman who lives in a village near Malang. She's married to an Indonesian guy and she has adorable mixed children. But she is a famous traditional singer here. She speaks fluent Bahasa Indonesia and Bahasa Java (Javanese), which is too difficult for most Indonesians to speak. And she sings in Javanese...she's incredible! And she's super famous here, but I'm going to get to meet her on Sunday. I'm so excited!!!
Okay I think that's all I've got for you now. I love you all and miss you all like crazy!!! Later!!
Waitwait...one last thing. There is this really sketchy, very large Indonesian man sitting next to me. At first I thought he was a woman, but no no. He smells kind of like a gas station bathroom and he just let out this really loud, really obscene sigh. Perhaps that's my cue to leave...
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Hey Love!
It sounds like you're having a blast there - i didn't expect anything else, though. :-) Keep me updated on the cute boy. We miss you tons and tons! Hope it continues to go amazing ly well! xoxoxoxo Erica
Hi Sweetheart:
Thanks for the update. It was all very interesting. It sounds like you and Prido went on a nice little date!
I'm glad everything is going well.
Nothing new here to report.
Don't get any ideas from that famous American woman that lives there. You have to return home next year, the Indonesian government says so!
Any news on Singapore?
Love,
Mum
hey sister! talking to you was so amazing the other day. we all had a great time in west va but wished you were there! and guess what!!!... i played with bees! i know, i know, im kinda crazy. but i put on a pair of pappaw's jeans (i didnt have pants with me), a pair of his gym shoes (i didn't have those either), a sweatshirt, a camo hat with a bee veil mask thing on it, and these crazy long and thick gloves. i didnt get stung thank goodness but it was really neat. he showed me what it was like inside the bee things. i put some pics on facebook of that and everyone so check em out. im glad that your boyfriend isn't gay... but after you said he likes to check out girls or something you said he likes to stargaze - so don't get too sure of yourself hehe jk! is there a way you can attach a picture of him on your blog? or can you do that on facebook or something so i can see him??! oh and im a published photographer now! go to www.everydaychild.com, click on the high speed version on the left, then click on our style at the top. i took that picture of their daughter. scroll down and my name is credited at the bottom. its pretty sweet. ill also have some more pictures on there soon of them as a family. yay! kyle is doing great... working full time doing his coding thing and making lots of money. he bought me this really cute cotton sundress that has different color polka dots on it that i wore for tammy's bday. it was only like $15 which is awesome lol he misses you just like the rest of us so i'm thinking that you should just come home jk kinda. getting deported isn't so bad hehe (evil laugh). i cut j.t. and kyle's hair b4 we left for west va with dad's clippers. j.t.'s hair was getting really long and ugly cause you know its thin haha but it looks cute now. we're also going to granny's in 2 weekends and i think you should come with us *wink wink *shoulder nudge. im just kidding... it sounds like you're having an amazing time and really making an impact over in so many lives. im really proud of you, as we all are. its really awesome that you made the newspaper and the radio, etc. you're such a diva. TORI MARTIN - TAKING INDONESIA BY STORM! hehe but i am slightly hurt that you will play and kayak with your family and friends over there at the beach and here you just sit and read. i see how it is. just kidding again. but we all love you and miss you and are so glad that you're doing such an amazing job over there! congrats! kisses! <3 Tara
Hey this is PAPA,
Sounds like you're handling the situation with Ria's family about as well as you can. If it is that important to Ria's family, tell her we will send her several million rupiah because as Americans, everybody in the world realizes that we have cold hard cash absolutely running out of our noses... we are filthy stinking rich. But seriously, it sounds like you did all you can do to not let it get the best of you. Use your head. So is this young non-gay man someone you're interested in? And like your mother said, you must come home. Miss you a lot! Hope you're having a grand and glorious time! Be safe. Watch your back. Love you a lot! Miss you more! -Daddy
Hi love,
I am so glad you're having such a good time. I want to see some pictures please.
Just to double check, what are you doing for the holidays? Are you back in the States, or are you staying there with your host fam? Just curious.
So I've been writing my SRP now (in earnest, vs me just pretending I've been working on it). I'm about half way (or hope to be by this evening at any rate). I took a break yesterday from writing though b/c Harry Potter came out, and well, you know that it was very important that I should read it.
Since I'm a dork I went to Borders and stood in line until midnight. I even dragged my friends Nicole and Nahamah to the bookstore with me, and they were good sports about it. I was 8th in line, so I can't complain too much. :) I had hoped to stay up all night on Saturday (well in the early morning hours) to read, but I passed out on top of my book at 4am, and I worked at 7am. I think I could have done it if I hadn't had only about 6 hours of sleep for the previous 48 hours. By the time I passed out I was almost at 30 hours of being awake. So next time I have to pull an all-nighter I'll know better.
So I finally finished the book at around 5pm yesterday (I had to take a nap for an hour after I got off work). I won't say anything here until you let me know that you've finished it. I'm currently waiting for my fellow staff members (about half of them are reading HP now) to be ready to discuss it. I'm so excited that I'm working with fellow dorks. lol.
So I'm working at the desk right now. (my lovely Sunday morning shift. blah) One of our guests checked out of her conference early, and forgot some clothes, so came back to get them. Her dad started chatting with me, and turns out he works for Morgan Stanley, and when he found out I was a 2nd year grad student in IER, he recommended that I look at them. Apparently they really need people to go overseas, and are looking for people to go to... Singapore! So I'm going to look at it online now to see what they might want from an employee.
Look what being a chatterbox gets you.
Love,
Amy
hey there you blue celebrity... tell me that you miss me, because i am sad i am not there experiencing this with you!
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