Posts Tagged ‘Central Java’
The Best Light Show Of All
Finding the sublime amid the selfie-takers.
Read MoreThe Wisdom of Youth: or, Playing in Rain and Eating Instant Noodles
A schoolteacher in Java faces a milestone of ageing: worrying about things that don’t really need to be worried about.
Read MoreNotes From a Javanese Village
Living in a small village is many things, but a relaxing idyll isn’t one of them.
Read MoreI Climbed a Mountain in Java, so Naturally this is a Ghost Story
Rain didn’t stop their hike, nor did the coming of night. And so they entered Samarantu Gate…
Read MoreMount Sumbing Was Instagrammable. The Journey Up It Was Not.
The plan was for a family holiday – with my sister and her family, my parents, my younger brother, my grandmother, my uncle and his family, plus me and my husband – to the slopes of Mount Sumbing…
Read MoreOnline Learning In The Javanese Countryside Isn’t As Easy As Turning On Zoom
The school where I teach is in a small village on the outskirts of Pemalang, a city of around 1.5 million people in north-central Java. The road I take to get there, while asphalted, is only around three metres wide, pothole-riddled, and flanked left and right by rice-fields…
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