Life at the University

It's the end of the first week teaching and I thought I'd give you a glimpse of my work life here:

-I have a driver that picks me up from my house and takes me home each day. (Sometimes he forgets to pick me up, other times he's late.......this is common here. I haven't missed a class yet though. Having a driver sounds luxurious, and while it's nice to have this service, I get picked up in an old van.)

-Of course, no A/C in the classrooms, but "common rooms" like planning room and main department office has A/C.

-No copywrite laws here.........all teacher "textbooks" are copies of the original book........no texts for students........some teachers photo copy an entire book for each student!

(Piracy is very common here and there are more illegal copies of DVDs and CDs than there are legal copies. These are sold in shops, so it's not a back alley type of business. Copies of DVDs/CDs cost about Rp10,000 or $1.)