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Visiting the market
I love to go to markets (often called wet markets) in Southeast Asia. I love seeing the people buying and selling as much as I love seeing all the food. I love wet markets even when they are smelly —...
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New Year’s Eve in Bandung
The trumpets and noisemakers, hand-made from foil paper and tinsel, have been for sale for at least two weeks. Independent vendors set up impromptu sales displays alongside the city streets, blocking...
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Sheep fighting in Subang
Those are the biggest testicles I have ever seen, I thought as the rams came off the small trucks, wrangled by men holding the animals’ giant crescent horns. Each ram’s scrotum looked like a...
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Making Batik in Bandung
Saturday morning, I went with three other Americans to a local batik design and production business to learn more about how batik is made. Our workshop lasted three hours and cost each of us less than...
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Acquiring language: Bahasa Indonesia
I have been studying the Indonesian language since May 2011, and now I can speak it well enough to have a simple conversation — a very simple conversation, nothing too complicated (I’m not at all quick...
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