Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Time to Put My Learning Hat on

The boss has finally decided. I'm off on Sunday to go to Yogya (short fo Yogyakarta, sounds like Georgia but like Jo-gia) on the island of Java for the next 2 weeks to study Indonesian. For those who are not familiar with Indonesian geography, below's a map of the island of Java. Yogya is known to be the cultural capital of Java, as well as a shopper's haven, with lots of batik, silver, and furniture. Everyone in the office is predicting that I will come back loaded with goodies.
I will be enrolled at Realia. Classes begin at 8am and run through 4pm with a 1 hour break. That's 7 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 2 weeks. I think the classes are mostly individual lessons with field trips to practice with the locals. It's going to be an intensive 2 weeks. I've never learned languages this way before.

For the weekend in between the 2 weeks, I'm planning to go to the 1,500-year-old Borobudur Temple, its built from two million blocks of stone in the form of a massive symmetrical stupa, wrapped around a small hill.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

We would like to know how it is built. Take more photos when you are there.