Well today I finally started classes a they were......interesting!
My first class today was at 9am so like a diligent bule I arrived at class on time (the scheduled class time is really just a suggestion and usually they'll start at least 15 minutes late. However, 15 minutes later there was still no sign of a lecturer and then an office member rocked up telling us our dosen was sakit! Then not 2 minutes later another guy turns up and "dosen ada operasi gigi"! Hmmmm what to believe???? So our first kelas kosong!
Kelas tata bahasa was next and that was like a proper class - we did our first test and everything (although it seems bizarre seeing as we hadn't learnt anything at all)!
THEN GAMELAN untuk mahasiswa asing! Well turns out gamelan for foreigners was a class with 9 bules and about 100 new students (waduh!) - though funny because the lecturers decided to tell everyone else they had to make another class because statistically bules were better at gamelan?????hmmm don't know about that!
After that we went to the cafeteria and WADUH kehujanan! Intense tropical storm!
Interesting. All what you're saying plus everything I can't make sense of because my knowledge of Indonesian is rather limited. On the up side I'm happy to learn some, on the down side, I might get bored and stop reading your blog. let's hope not. or alternatively, you can add translations =)
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