One Is international education Week and I am scheduled to give talks on "Preparing a Statement of Purpose" for a college application and "Finding the right college for YOU" on tuesday and t hursday.Tom is to do a talk on careers in the STEM fields on Wed.
Additionally there is a big high school fair sponsored by the Jakarta Post. The consulate has a booth there that needs to be manned 11 hours a day and they are pressing all available Americans to help out. I will do an evening shift on monday and a day shift Wed. Tom will help out with the day shift after his STEM talk. I was originally double booked, a day shift and a talk at the same time, until I protested. It doesn't help that they are at different venues, about as far from each other as its possible to be. Additionally two of the Fulbright English teaching assistants are manning the booth all day Sat and both live 30 miles out of town, so we invited them to stay overnight here - our first houseguests.
We survived our moves and are now happily ensconced in what we hope will be our home for the next 8 months. I must say that the staff was extremely helpful. Tom had asked for a shaving mirror in our old unit which they had installed. When we walked in here for the first time today, he noticed they had already installed the same mirror ( or moved the other one). I get to keep my same cleaning guy whom I really like. He speaks passable English. Some of my friends are jealous. He come three times a week and changes the linens and empties the trash and cleans the floors and generally makes himself useful.
The unit is a mirror image of our old one so we keep getting confused about which direction to go.
I have my photos back. I just guessed at what google was asking me in Indonesian and presto.
Here are some.
Our unit is the one just under the penthouse on the left- 20th floor.
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