Nearly every person whom I told I was going to Manila gave me the same reaction: "Manila?! You have to be careful! Its crazy in Manila!". Nicole, my host from Kuala Lumpur, even showed me a message her last CS guest sent her in which she express how she just wanted to cry in Manila and was so afraid she couldn't eat. When I asked Nicole why it was so bad she said that cops with large guns search you at the subways and stores. "Well that's not too different from the cops in the NYC subway trains", I told her.
Friday, January 25, 2013
Monday, January 21, 2013
Bali: dangerous surf conditions, kebays, and Uluwatu
I feel like I really cheated Kadek's sister out of a learning opportunity.
The night we got back from Ubud, her younger sister asked me to help her with her homework. She was supposed to transcribe into English a 3 minute audio clip. I took me a couple of minutes and Kadek said her sister would have been up all night doing it. The audio clip was actually really channeling. It seemed to be a clip form National Geographic or other documentary, and had complex sentences and words like "subterranean" and "tectonic plates" . We laughed about how impressed her teacher was going to be when she read it.
The night we got back from Ubud, her younger sister asked me to help her with her homework. She was supposed to transcribe into English a 3 minute audio clip. I took me a couple of minutes and Kadek said her sister would have been up all night doing it. The audio clip was actually really channeling. It seemed to be a clip form National Geographic or other documentary, and had complex sentences and words like "subterranean" and "tectonic plates" . We laughed about how impressed her teacher was going to be when she read it.
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