8/30/2012

8/30/2012 Question

Q. You've mentioned a few times about eating with your hands.  Are most meals eaten that way?  Or just certain meals?  And who is your teacher?  Is it someone from Rotary, or...?  If the teachers mom keeps telling you to eat, have you lost so much weight that they are worried about you, or it is more social and you "should" eat more?

A. Indonesian eat almost everything with their hands. All meals and snacks are eaten using hands. Unless it is soup, then they use spoons and sometimes they use chopsticks for noodles. There is almost always a sink very close to the table (in restaurants too) so that people can wash their hands after they eat. My teacher is Mrs. Anita and I do not know if she is with Rotary but, she is good friends with my host Mom and my councilor (Aunt Melly). I have not lost a lot of weight... relax mom. They always say to eat more and more (just like you). To answer a previous question they do not eat steak like we eat it of even hamburger (unless it is at McDonald's). They normally cut their meat into chunks and eat it that way. Maybe in some western restaurant I will be able to find steak.

8/30/2012

I started today by going shopping with my host family's server. We walked a little bit and she tried to talk to me but I could only understand a couple of phrases. The shop was very small and all the vegetables were out in the open with flies everywhere. The chicken and the fish were just sitting out with no refrigeration. I can honestly say that shopping for my food did not make me more excited to eat it. So, we bought the supplies that we would need for the day stopped at a phone shore where the maid ordered something (I think, I really have no idea what was going on), and then we walked home again. I hung out at the house again, I studied the material from my lesson a little bit, watched some TV and relaxed while my family was at work or doing other things. My sister Diandra go home and together we went to one of the other Inbound's birthday party. We talked and celebrated for a very long time. My Aunt Melly and I joked around everyone had a great time I think. In Bandung we have three Inbounds, all girls one from Brazil one from France and me (from the USA). They all speak English and again I wish that the United States had a better language learning system in school.  

 

8/30/2012 Highlight

Aunt Melly told us today at the party that after orientation we will be required to put on a performance. Well two performances one with the people that come from our country (all the Americans together all the Brazilians etc.) and one with the Inbounds that live in our area (all the Bandung kids together). I am not a huge fan of "do whatever you want to do" performances and when Aunt Melly told me that there are no requirements, except that we do a performance I was not thrilled. But, then Aunt Melly suggested that we do a traditional Peacock dance and both of us started miming the dance by flapping our arms (the dances have long sleeves that look like a peacock's feathers then they flap their arms). We both laughed kept imitating until our traditional peacock dance turned into a chicken dance and the entire party laughed at us. I had a lot of fun messing around at the party and I can't wait to get to know all of the Inbound students better.