Baggage Update!

September 16th, 2012


In my last update I forgot to inform you all of the good news that my baggage and I were finally reunited! The bags got loaded on the flight out from Singapore to Surabaya after mine, and true to her word, the nice lady at Surabaya Airport baggage had my bags sent down to Malang yesterday morning. The bags must have been delivered to the school first, because two of the office boys showed up around 11am, and each had one of my bags in hand. And while it was thrilling to see both bags, I had to leap up on a bench in our front yard and peer over the fence into the back of the van to confirm that my guitar was also here. That’s when I was finally able to give the ultimate sigh of relief.


Today was blissfully uneventful. I finally fell asleep last night around 5:30am, so understandably, wasn’t up until around 11am. For lunch my roommate showed me around to some of the restaurants close by, and then we ate at a nice little shop where I got a plate of fried rice for a dollar. Now that’s the kind of prices I’m talking about! Then we headed home so I could rest some more. My bum luck seems to have rubbed off on one of my roommates, as he realized that he had lost his keys at some point the night before. This wouldn’t be so bad, since living with roommates gives him easy access to the house, but for safety reasons we are encouraged to lock our bedroom doors before going out. So he was locked out of his room all last night and most of today.

So tomorrow is the first day of school for me! This first week is just for orientation, so I won’t actually be teaching until next week, but I get to do exciting things this week like fill out paper work and learn the school’s computer system. I’ll also be able to drop in on some classes to scope out the other teachers and how they run their classrooms.


Right now the Muslim call to prayer is echoing over the neighborhood, which is really a very beautiful and haunting sound. I think there is one at about 5am as well, and I like it less at that hour.