it first takes place in a bus.. on the way to nowhere.. next all the seats are taken so you have to stand.. this may sound bad enough because remember.. the bus isnt going anywhere so you have to stand forever.. but really this isnt it.. next add about 50 more people also standing and there you go.. even though the bus has air conditioning there are obviously wayyyy to many people on the bus to feel it..
this is what i experienced yesterday.. my own little personal hell.. of course it didnt last forever but 4 and a half hours standing being pressed upon on all sides by people and having some people talk to us in rapid indonesian made for a lovely ride back home.. sometimes indonesia can just throws these little curve balls and makes you go WHATTTTTTTTTTTT.. really just picked me up and kicked me a couple of times.. ive had a massive headache for like 6 hours now.. reallly really not fun..
BUT anyways..
so this week.. kinda a weird week.. only taught two out of the ten classes that i have.. but it was an interesting week.. tuesday there was a marching event after school that some of the students participated in.. it was a march for their independence day which happens to fall in the middle of Ramadan so they had to have it early.. it was pretty interesting.. some students, i dont think from my school, dressed up as punks.. there was actually quite a few groups of them.. i snapped one or two pics of the better costumes.. but it took FOREVER and it wasnt that fun.. when you think marching you think music and i dunno whatever else marching entails.. but no.. nothing.. so i guess more power to the people who were marching in the heat..
then the week got boring.. didnt have class on thursday or friday and then today i went to Surabaya for a lunch with someone who is in charge of some major operations in Peace Corps. It was pretty nice getting away for a little bit.. the first bus ride in was pretty uneventful.. just here and there and then we went to lunch.. we had lunch at this museum restaurant and afterwards we got to go see the museum.. it was pretty cool.. turns out the museum is a ciggarette factory as well.. it smelled so amazing when we walked in.. its a clove ciggarette factory so the entire place smelled amazing.. it was pretty neat watching them packed the ciggarettes.. a lot of the process is done by hand and man they move INCREDIBLY fast.. they can roll up to 6 ciggarettes a minute.. cant imagine it.. its super fast..
and after lunch we visited the PC office grabbed some english books and went on our way to the bus station.. and then the bus ride home.. mann.. no need to explain it all again..
and i also found a little lizard friend.. sadly he passed away the same night he decided to visit me but i got some cool pictures before that happened.. i didnt kill him haha he fell from the ceiling and landed upside down and didnt get up again.. so it was sad.. but the upside is that there is another little lizard running around my desk today so new friend!
alright well tomorrow starts ramadan.. which means fast from sun up to sun down.. pretty excited to participate.. only thing is gotta wake up before the sun rises to eat so that means getting up at like 3, eating and then going back to bed.. all im going to have is water during the day which will be more than all the other muslims.. they dont even drink water while fast.. which sounds like a bad thing waiting to happen but hopefully no one faints in this heat..
well gotta get going.. hope you enjoyed my ramblings.. seems thats all i do.. ramble on..
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