A few weeks ago, towards the end of one of my classes, a student asked me on a whim why I chose to work as an English teacher in a seminary college. I can’t remember the exact words but his subsequent question sounds somewhere along this line: “Are you looking for…

#MeToo

I was reading Simon Kuper’s piece on the Financial Times on sexual harassment at educational institutions and it brought me back to my primary school days at SD Suster in Pontianak during the 1990s. During those years, we had…

Some thoughts on racial identity

Some thoughts as a novice on the job

‘I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.’ — Mark Twain

My life took a sharp turn two years ago when I decided to become an English teacher in a small college. It never occurred to me that I would eventually shift my career and plunge into the…