A little excitement!
Today I met the Belgian Ambassador to
My inner monologue was as follows:
What?! Its 1700 Rp for EACH lumpia? That seems a little steep for one lumpia! I am just getting ripped off because this is the tourist area and I’m white-ish!
Ohhh, but the lumpia smell soooo good…and they ARE kinda big…but I hate getting ripped off…but…sooo good….ok…just this once….
I got two. They were amazing.
One other note: I’m amazed how different the crowd here is relative to the crowd from my language program in China. First of all, nobody here worked in for-profit enterprise. Literally everyone in my language school works in either:
a) Education (i.e. at the language school or is some other kind of student)
b) Non profit, which they keep calling “NGO”, which I guess means Non-Governmental Organization, although I would think that acronym includes for profit corporations but it doesn’t. Let me tell you, some of these people have some pretty sweet perks for working at a non-profit
c) Diplomats
I think I’m the only person in my school that will at some point in the next year work for a for-profit organization. Everyone is like “I work at the embassy” or “I’m working in an AIDS prevention program” and I’m like “I’m on vacation! I do language schools for fun. It’s a nice way to reduce my housing cost while traveling and meet people more interesting than myself. In two months my job will be to help rich people get richer. So you’re helping midget orphans in Papua New Guinea find work making baskets? That must be very fulfilling. And your NGO is putting you up at the Four Seasons while you’re here learning Indonesian? How nice for you!”
