Video has not killed the radio star.

Oops, long time, posting neglected. This does NOT mean I am running about having fun. It means the net has been REALLY slow.

Since Kenny and Ipit moved out, it has been so quiet at my house. And I have watched some truly terrible movies. There's an English movie on every night, but the quality is not much to rave about. Normally good guys/ bad guys movies with as much kung fu as possible. They LOVE that here. My kinder kids made puppets, and then started using them to kung fu the other puppets' asses. Go figure.

I feel more harrassed than usual. I went to the top of the mountain to hang out with the monkeys on Sunday, and there were all these boys from Jakarta who kept talking to me, and wouldn't leave me alone (There were also a group of kids who kept climbing trees to show me they were also monkeys, which was cute. And then they'd just sit at my feet and LOOK at me). The kid who took me to his house shows up ALL the time now. The internet operator guy keeps asking if he can come to my house. And yesterday there were hordes of young guys on my way to school, and they kept intercepting me in groups and aggressively trying to get me to stop and talk with them. I have been somewhat short with people as a result of this. Sometimes I just want to pull the curtains on the little glass box that is my life in Asia, and get some damn privacy.

However, my students are still good, and I'm developing friendships with girls my age. Nelly lives around the corner, and has offered to chat with me at weekends- partially to improve her own English, but also as a friend. Moren brought me cake to class last night, which was sweet. And Gita is taking me to Bukittinggi on Saturday, and hung out with me after class last night, eating grilled spicy corn.

Before we go to Bukittinggi though, I am going to be a guest on Gita's radio show. She has an English language show, and I am special guest, yahoo. It's ages since I have been on radio. No really, I've been a special guest before :) I was on SBS radio representing my Indonesian Pop band in high school (although they spoke in FAST INdo, so I understood very little, and just sang for them), and when I did work experience at a community radio station I recorded ads (which was FUN, I'd like to do voice overs... me and every other actor in the world) and chatted on air- it turned out the presenter knew my aunt.

Anyway, so I am well on my way to being an Indonesian selebriti. Everyone knows my name, wants my number and photo (yeah, people take photos on their phones as I walk past), and now I'm on the radio. Next I'm aiming for a hyped up quiz show...