– By Elena Dietz, ETA in Malang, East Java – I looked down at my watch. It was 9:15 am. “We were supposed to leave over an hour ago…” I thought to myself. It was a Friday morning, and I had left one of my classes early to go to the immigration office with one of…
–By Kelly Fitzgerald– For me, the biggest source of culture shock in Indonesia is not the spicy food and rice with every meal. It is not suara adzan, the five-times daily call to prayer which rouses the faithful from their beds at the (un)godly hour of 4 a.m. It is not the staring and pointing…
–By Julianne O’Connell– When I got accepted as a Fulbright ETA to Indonesia I was living in Vienna, Austria as a United States Teaching Assistant under the auspice of Fulbright Austria. In addition to my work as a teaching assistant I spent my time enjoying Viennese culture: reading in parks, writing in world-class cafe houses,…
