Last weekend we went on a seminar/trip with students of the English department. They asked us to be speakers at a seminar on soft skills in Lhoksumawe, 400km north of Medan. Of course, we agreed, also because after the seminar on Friday we would continue north to spend the weekend on a small island in the Indian ocean. The seminar was quite ( Read more... )

We're back in Medan after a nice relaxing weekend in Tangkahan. We saw waterfalls, goannas and washed elephants! The Elephant washing was particularly fun. They're so big (who would've thought!) and friendly. Well, I'm not sure if that last bit can be said about every elephant but our bunch certainly was well behaved ( Read more... )

So, I take it most of you already got a good look at the pictures of our weekend trip to Berastagi. (Psssst, they're here: https://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=289888&id=527312356&l=4068983032Read more... )

Wow. When I read my last entry I was appalled by the bad quality of writing. I'll try to do better from now on. (Not fishing for compliments here, some of it STINKS ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had my first class. It's a class I teach together with Patrik, a friend from Bonn who I'm doing this internship with. In this class the students have to prepare a 10 minute presentation about a subject of their choice. We also try to teach some basics about academic writing since most of the students lack in that department A LOT! Since ( Read more... )

I lost my voice, can't find it anywhere, it's completely gone, pissed off to have fun somewhere else. You can imagine that this is a sub-optimal condition for some one who is supposed to teach language. I got sent back to my room to get my voice back by the head teacher even though we were only supposed to do some corrections at the teachers lounge ( Read more... )

So today we went to a wedding of a former german student from Medan University who is now a german teacher. The wedding was full and loud and very interesting. We saw and spoke to the bride and groom only a little bit and spent most of the time sampling the food :P When we arrived we had to shake a lot of hands first, then we were ushered straight ( Read more... )

So the second full day draws to a close. It's still very hot, I reckon about 28°C, and it doesn't cool down much at night either. I drink a lot of water and all but the heat is getting to me a little I guess. I might need some more days to adjust to the weather ( Read more... )

Hey fine folks, I thought I fire up this old thing since it hasn't evaporated in the internets yet. And since I'm now in INDONESIA I have stuff to write about. So keep your eyes peeled for exciting reports about showering with a bucket, the importance of a/c and the joy(?) of teaching German.

Hey guys, I'm in Liverpool and the sun is shining. It's a shame that I haven't updated for such a long time. Things have been happening, I guess. Nothing too spectacular. But updating this is one of the many things I would like to do more regularly. (BTW, does anybody know if there's a way to download all your old entries to your computer? I want ( Read more... )