Back to Yogya...Back to Work

This last 2 months has been quite the blur of travel. I have been off school for what seems like forever and brushing up on my Indonesian. I am also becoming more confident; ie feeling fine walking around alone, finding transport, eating at the tiny warung across from my house. After traveling around, things are good here in Yogya. Today was my first day back to school and I could tell my students were glad to see me. I felt motivated and hope to make some changes to my currently very skimpy teaching schedule. Perhaps I will augment the hours I teach English Conversation with an English Club and with the Teachers’ English Class which seems to have finally begun! My students had to interview each other today and below are some excerpts:

__(Boy’s name)_______ athlete since 1998. More about sports competitions, etc. Then…..
• Not have a girl yet
• Because he didn’t like to have girlfriend early
• Girl friend made _name_ not free
• That sucks
• The gossip was not true
• ____ was ____ (girl in class’ name) friend for a long time ago
• He have ever been slept with her
• Sometimes he practice together
• His family disagreed becaus her was second hand
• He continued his relation as a friend
• He believe in god

This one was not accepted for obvious reasons and was rewritten:

• Since 1998 he followed sports. He was very antusias. (then more about sports….)
• In his mind school was not important. He thought that his future didn’t depend on the school only.
• And also about women. He don’t like to have girlfriend early. Of course it dissappointed some girls.

Another interview of a boy in our class:

Paris Hilton
1. Hai Paris, nice to meet you!We hear that you’ve made a video clip for Stars are Blind, but some people consider that it’s too sexy! Give your opinion about it?

P- That’s hot. It’s not sexy coz I still wear bikini but if you think it’s too sexy it’s okay. Coz I’m really sexy. Although I have small breasts I still so sexy.

2. But, you can be tall down from entertainment world if you still stubborn many people will terror you How it be with you?

P- I don’t care about them. They just jealous with my popularity, with my beauty, my worth, my sexy body, my ability, and all that I have. That’s hot.

And another:

His name 3xy. His job is as superhero. He come from Crypton Planet. His favorite food is fried-nuclear. His favorite drink is hydrocarbon-float. He wannabe a trendsetter, by wearing his brief outside. His girlfriend named Anna-Sue. He has a dog, named Anna-Sue substitutor.” His enemy is BATMAN (not BADMAN), because his merchandise products sold more than BATMAN’s. He really-really hate…HATE him. WONDER WOMAN is his enemy too. Cuz, someday, when 3xy told to wonder woman that he loved her, wonder woman refused him…REFUSED HIM. She never love him because he used his brief OUTSIDE.