Who's who and what's what

I'm sorry for that very long post. This may seem simple but it actually has a steep learning curve. There were lots of technical issues, not to mention that google was "helping" me by trying to give me information in behasa Indonesian. One the one hand I had my blogging platform and on the other, the actual post and I could not get them to "marry" so I just kept adding to the first post. My intention is to make the posts shorter and about one topic.

Today I want to give you a who's who and what's what so in the future when I refer to a person or place you can come back here and figure it out.
AMINEF-the Fulbright umbrella organization here in Indonesia. It's headquartered in
Jakarta so we don't expect to see too much of them, but the director is in town today.
Staff are:
Nellie
Astrid
Mike
CIES -Fulbright administrators in DC
Education USA -the flip side of aMINEF, they encourage Indonesians to study in the US. I expect to do some volunteering there.
Ratna - director of Education USA
The Comprehensive Agreement -this is an agreement signed between Obama and the Indonesian president to promote educational exchanges both ways and is the reason Tom was eligible for a third Fulbright.
American consulate staff:
Kristen Bauer -American Consul General
Emily Norris -public Affairs
Tara Visani -community liason
There are others but only a total of 10-12 Americans on her staff. These plus spouses and a handful of teachers at the American school are most of the Americans here in Surabaya. Overall no more than 50 so we will be quite visible.
ITS - the university where Tom will teach. It stands for 10th of November Institute of Technology. That date was important in the battle for independence from the Dutch. He will be part of the Environmental Engineering Department which is part of the Civil EngineeringFaculty.
Dr Yulinah - Tom's main liaison (a woman). He has an office in her lab.
Dr mardyanto head of Civil engineering
Dr Ketut part of civil engineering faculty, but currently part of administration. He'll be back to the department in a couple of months. He is a very interesting person. He's Balinese, his father was a farmer, and he sold souvenirs on the beach as a boy. But somehow he managed to get a superb education. He has a Masters degree from the UK and a PhD from Kobe Japan. He speaks fluent English as well as Balinese, Javanese, Indonesian, and Japanese. Tom thinks Ketut played a large role in getting him here to this university and has gone through his resume with a fine toothed comb to see how they can best make use of him..
Java Paragon -where we expect to live. There are two high rise towers. One is a hotel and one is apartments and they share a pool and fitness center. Right now we are still in a hotel and getting pretty tired of it. I will do another full post on the search for housing later.
Surabaya, East Java - where we live. The metropolitan area is about 3 million. I will do a full post on that later as well.

I guess that's all for today.
Sampai ketamulagi. (see you later)
Anne