Life in a development country

So I guess there is always ups and downs..

currently the situation has been kind of crazy..

one of the most important historic palaces burned
a garuda airplane crashed and since tuesday probably 150 earthquakes have hit the surroundings of padang...fortunately padang hasnt really suffered yet, but a total of 90 people have lost their lives.
for me it still seems so far, but maybe monday i will go to solok, the center to help. we already packed some stuff yesterday.

Other than that... I m only doing minor things in AIESEC\s pbox (project based on exchange) project about hiv /aids... but ihope i can support nienke and gijs the other two trainees as much as possible.
after tomorrow there is two schools left. and then nienke and gijs will already leave along with elke another trainee from the netherlands... so it will only be ivette from mexiko and me, but i think ivette is pretty busy working, so we might not see each other that much....

we ll see... hopefully by then i can further improve my indonesian and i can travel a little bit in the area and maybe also get some rest. because currently i dont really have off days. which is fine... just the people that know me know that sometimes i need time to reflect, think and take a walk so the last 2 days i ve been kind of worn out, but that should be fine soon. so no worries.

and please everyone dont worry about the earthquake it probably sounds 10x worse in the media then it actually was.

my work is good as well. ,y coworkers are really nice and i hope i can improve my teaching skills. sometimes its still hard, because of the different levels of the students and also difficulties in english.

but everything should be fine and i think i ll have a good time the rest of my stay here, which i think is another 12 weeks.

what else is new?

hm... i was trying to upload some pictures,but i m afraid its not working because the connection is too slow... maybe next time... because it seems like the connectino is different everytime....

anyways.. just wanted to let all of you know... that i m good..healthy....padang is still safe and dont worry bout me...

oh yes we also had a welcoming party and i won the trainee competition...yay... LOL....anyways... hope i can help make some changes here in aiesec... we ll see...

take care,
rich