We had a busy first week in Jogjakarta! We started our Bahasa Indonesia studies and our ISPs, completed a scavenger hunt that brought the group all over downtown Jogjakarta, and visited two magnificent temple complexes outside of the city: Borobudur......Read More
Hello families and friends of our Indonesia Fall Dragons, We just wanted to confirm with you all that our student group is safe and sound in their homestay in Jogya following a series of earthquakes that have hit Indonesia. No tremors have been felt......Read More
Homestay in Jogya Today we began our homestay, and we thought it would be a fun activity to share with you our first impressions and first experiences with our families: Harrison: I started my homestay with a horse driven carriage through the the......Read More
Me, Avery, Carly, Eeshani and Savanna went to a grill place for lunch. I had a really great donburi and Thai iced tea. Avery squeezed all over the fries. It was fun. Afterwards we went to the Indomaret convenience store to buy snacks....Read More
Feeling confident enough in my ability to get home by myself, I told my instructors that there was no need for my homestay family to come get me – something that was only going to happen on our first full day in our home stays. As I began......Read More
It is quiet and lonely in our program house, having just sent the last of our group off with their homestay families. Yet we are so excited to hear their stories and witness them become enmeshed in a new cultural context over the coming weeks.......Read More
We had a walk uphill along the potatoes and carrots fields until we reach one of the spot with the view of “Telaga Warna” (or color lakes of Dieng). One of our activities that morning was sharing our goals for this semester and create......Read More
Orientation week began Wednesday early morning with a curving 6 hour train ride through rows upon rows of rice fields, towns, and for a few brief minutes, our first glimpses of the ocean. On the train our group connected more through playing......Read More
We’ve spent the past two days in Dieng Plateau, a beautiful part of the highlands nestled amongst volcanoes and terraced farms. Yesterday and today, we explored two ancient Hindu temples in the area, using these sites as a backdrop for orientation......Read More
Our group got familiar with the geography of Indonesia and discussed our intended itinerary during our first day of orientation. They did an awesome job identifying the locations of some of the towns, cities, and islands that we will be visiting......Read More
Surrounded by ancient Hindu temples in Dieng plateu… We are starting our morning orientation activities & some energizer lead by Carly....Read More
Indonesia is not what I expected – not nearly so foreign or strange as I was led to believe. It’s hard to get from place to place here in Indonesia, or at least time consuming. The landscape is sloping, starting from flat farm land to temperate......Read More
