The Adventure Begins

Hello all!
I have finally arrived in Jakarta after many hours on planes. I went from Detroit to Minneapolis to Tokyo to Singapore to Jakarta. Some random things I did/experienced while traveling:

• I sprinted across the Minneapolis airport to catch my connecting flight to Tokyo


• Flew over Canada and Alaska and got a bird's eye view of some sweet geologic formations


• Made an "About Me" powerpoint featuring pictures of my friends, family and home to show to my class


• Watched "Alice in Wonderland" dubbed over in Japanese


• Tried a "Green Tea" flavored Kit Kat bar in the Tokyo Narita airport


• Learned some Indonesian via a program on the touch screen televisions on the flight to Singapore


• Temporarily lost my baggage (I made the connecting flight to Tokyo- it didn't)


• Met all the Fulbrighters!


• Met two people who actually know where Oscoda is


• Stayed the night in Singapore

So overall the traveling went really well. I was able to sleep a lot on the planes and my bag has caught up to me in Jakarta. For the first four weeks the English Teaching Assistants will be doing an orientation first in Jakarta, then in Bandung. We are going over some basic things about the Fulbright Program in general as of right now, but soon we will begin training for teaching English as a Second Language and also get some language instruction for Bahasa Indonesian, which I am VERY stoked for. I can say a few things as of right now but basic words like "cat" and "fork" can only get you so far.

More to come on Jakarta later when I get out and about more...

I miss you already! Take care all and I will talk to you soon.

Demi