I'm finally back in Pekanbaru. I get back to find they've closed the faster of the two internet places. Its been magically repalced with yet another copy place. They have so many copy places. Why?? This one is so slow. And they can't find the grades I turned in way back when. They would ask where the grades were and then I would say I turned ( Read more... )

So the other day I found myself playing Uno with 2 Indonesians, 3 Germans, one Spainard, and me. I know I may not be a Uno connusiour, but I always thought it was pretty much painfully easy. I mean thats why kids play it right. But apperently the games played differently throughout the world. There was much discussion and talk over what were ( Read more... )

Today I ate Meksican food. Yes, that is the way it was spelled. Not as good as Mexican food, but not horrible. I mean they had tortillas and a couple Native American decorations (which is the same as Meksican right?). And the name is Amigos. They tried. Amigos had a band that played "Top 40s" which means american songs and they tried so hard ( Read more... )

Oh I just realized I forgot to say how the talk about me not teaching went. So yes, it is the weekend and its obvious I'm not teaching for 8 hours becasue then I'd be quite unhappy. So I told the university I couldn't do it and how I would love to, but unfortunatly (fake tear) my contract does not allow me to work weekends and they could call my ( Read more... )

So I think I explained before what a Jilbab is. Its a head covering that most (not every) Muslim women wears here. It covers your neck and hair, but not your face. Anyway my awsome friend Julie who wears a Jilbab told me she often listens to her walkman under her Jilbab during boring meetings and stuff like that. Its like the Jilbab finally ( Read more... )

So I went into the bathroom last night around 9:30 and and found an above average sized spider. I was thinking about how to kill it without resorting to the Raid (it was near my toothbrush and stuff) then out of the corner of my eye I saw the largest spider I've ever seen. This was clearly the mother of the first spider. It looked like something ( Read more... )

I do have good days, but I don't always write on those days ( Read more... )

So after reading about Mila's sugar gliders and looking up their photos on the internet I decided I must have one. After doing some research on the matter (with the help of Kim), it turns out they are illegal in california. Along with Ferrets. Their was a bill to legalize ferrets in CA. Schwarzrnegger turned it down with this statment. I found ( Read more... )

Today I taught a class on American slang. If their is any justice in the world one of my students will use the word "bitchin" in a sentance tomorrow. Oh please Oh please Oh please.

I had a variety of names picked out for this post, but as I became more sane and the swearing under my breath subsided, I went with this one. I choose this title cause its very important to me to have people to say "Hey that's wack man" about my life. Mainly in those words becasue American slang has become very important. Dude, homie, I love ( Read more... )