(enhanced) podcast of my trip to Kupang, Timor - where I visited my sponsor child, Rifan.Not much to say here. I hope you enjoy my breakdown of the valuable and life-changing work that Compassion are doing! :-)click here to d/load the En

SX019 H A Pee Pee Y

Apr 25th, 2011

What is on the podcast today? Who cares: it is a beautiful day, and I am skipping along (in the rain)! Life is wonderful. God is good. Rain is delicious. Oh, and I went to a wedding this morning also. Click here to d/load or listen onlin

SX018 the countdown begins

Mar 27th, 2011

It's the final countdown.... dah-dah, dah dah. I am being a little premature here, but I feel like my time in Indonesia is almost up. :-( Aw, sadseez. Is it totally evil of me to deliberately wait to collect my final scholarship money; just

SX017 a pinch and a punch

Mar 9th, 2011

Pinch and a Punch for the First of the Month! Today is 1 March 2011. Walk with me as I go to buy some 'pulsa' for my Mobile phone. Enjoy the dulcit tones of the mosque too! As I wonder the streets I realise that I really need some food - wh

SX016 Prepared for Semester 2

Mar 6th, 2011

Am I prepared for another semester of teaching? It really is a TON of work! Hats off to all teachers out there. Indonesian Uni students are SO sweet, friendly and innocent. That sure makes work a lot easier than rat-bag Westerners would be.

SX015 semester 2 begins at UMM

Feb 27th, 2011

Semester 2 starts tomorrow (cause Indonesia is on the crazy Northern-hemisphere timetable), so I am off to Coffee Time to prepare for English Seaking 2 classes. blahIt really is off-putting to have the REAL year disected by a fake academic y

SX014 Bali trip (for real), part 2

Feb 23rd, 2011

Enhanced podcast of Bali trip, part 2. Today I waffle less and actually talk about the trip and the photos I'm showing. Hope you enjoy it, and get a slice of tropical Bali pie while you listen. Warning for all Dutch listeners (& Germans)..

SX013 Bali trip, part 1

Feb 21st, 2011

Enhance podcast of my January trip to Bali with Ferdi. This is part 1 of my holiday - I chat about unusually good Travel in Indonesia, and about the first few days... alone... with just the boyfriend!Oh yes.... travelling with a new boyfrien

SX012 the lights are on...

Jan 15th, 2011

Cultural learnings, gender opression & repression. The lights are on... but nobody is home. I spend the first half of the podcast with some scary observations on Uni students and the education (school) system here. In fantastic news, I have now

SX011 oh yeah, it's gr8tle

Jan 13th, 2011

Ajir, Yenni, Anni, Robi, me - Rumbio, 2010You can probably guess that this means there is good news on the crackBook hardware front! Well, whilst my laptop is now restored to it's original (2009) glory - with tiny 160GB HDD - the internet has d

holy Jihad on Apple!

Nov 14th, 2010

Still no laptop for me, so no podcasts for another few weeks at least. My extremely bad quality white macBook of 2007 is literally cracking everywhere now. Shitty apple. Wish i still had my old 12" PowerBook!! My mum is posting over my old HDD,

new episode, coming soon

Oct 30th, 2010

I've been so busy lately, and when not busy am not alone!there are millions of people in Java - and Indonesian culture is to not let people be 'sendiri' (alone). So, when I try to be alone, sit etc, by myself, I am always approached by someone.

SX010 Student Day at UMM

Oct 21st, 2010

Enhanced podcast*- Today is "student day", so join me and 5,000 students as we march around the kampung (suburb)! It was quite a spectacle, and also very HOT. Glad we started around 7am. I am sure I talk about some other stuff too, and get sid

SX009 flu drugs & teaching

Oct 18th, 2010

I have become a junkie now. Life in Indonesia has pushed me over the edge - to hard drugs! Luckily here, you can just pop into the Apotik (chemist) and ask for whatever drugs you want. HELLO! I also fill you in briefly on my new job, teachi

SX008 I'm starvin' Marvin!

Oct 17th, 2010

I only have 2 topics in this show, and 1 of them involves me almost starving to death! Yes, I came close to going without any supper tonight (7 Oct), and you can imagine how that made me feel. :-( I also share with the entire world, one of my

SX007 I'm a dozin' Dosen

Oct 8th, 2010

Today I wax lyrical about my first few days teaching 'English Speaking 1' to all the young Indonesian students. Most of them are either like giddy school-girls, or extremely shy. And it wouldn't be "Indonesia" if I couldn't also tell you abo

SX006 our lady Maria, LIVE in Malang

Oct 4th, 2010

I'm singing and dancing on a prayer this weekend, after going to 1 of the big Roman Catholic Churches near the centre of Malang city. OK, well, that's not the reason why actually - but it is part of what I talk about today.Other than Catholoc

SX005 moody in Malang

Sep 30th, 2010

Everyday life in moody Malang. OK, so not moody itself, but I am moody at the moment. I run through my day and my current thoughts on learning Indonesian at UMM... or not. The clouds are brewing over France right now, as 2 of the French girls

SX004 city hall & grub

Sep 27th, 2010

>>> OK, please subscibe to this thru iTunes! I cannot insert the video into this post on slow Indonesian internet. If you don't subscribe, you're missing the actual content. Thnx <<

1st day of class, take 2

Sep 21st, 2010

Well, as you may have heard in my podcast, I should've started class yesterday (Monday), but we started properly today. Hmm.... what to say?well firstly, as I expected, I have been put into the intermediate class. This is because I was friendl

SX003 Bieber is here!

Sep 21st, 2010

This is an update of my first week or so in Malang. Well, the last few days especially, as I sort out my accomodation and go to (not) my first class at Uni. My major issue is the lack of fast internet (or access), and how that is making podc

SX002 Batu with Will

Sep 20th, 2010

Will and I took an Angkot (public transport mini-bus) from my Uni campus up to Batu (further up the hill). The very cute driver was chatting away to me as we drove up the mountain, but of course I could not understand him. :-( I did manage t

NBN Indonesia?

Sep 20th, 2010

well, the NBN (National Broadband Network) may be all the rage back in Oz - at least in theory, I am finding it extremely difficult to find ANY fast internet connection in Indonesia! :-(Right now I am in an expensive coffee shop near the campus

Malang at last

Sep 14th, 2010

Finally, I am in Malang! Actually, I arrived yesterday afternoon on the ekonomi train from Surabaya. It was just Rp 40,000 (A$5), but very crowded and hot (when it stopped moving). However, thanks to a nice Indonesian boy who carried my 2 bags