January 30, 2007 - page 2



something like this: McDonalds still has the nine-piece chicken McNugget meal (where’s my other nugget?), KFC has substituted rice for mashed potatoes (just plain wrong), Popeye’s workers don’t speak English or they don’t understand ‘no biscuits, that sucks’, and Pizza Hut is better in Yogyakarta than in Danville, Ky.

Pushing my American tendencies to the backburner, I used this city to do something I had never done. After getting

separated from the group on the first night, I visited the convenience store, Circle K, where I bought some bread filled with chocolate (which I think is on the Atkin’s diet) and some Indonesian BBQ chips. I figured I would just go back and watch Arnold Schwarzenegger movies on my 5-inch TV in the hotel room. However, on my way back, I peeked in what I think was an apartment building lobby and saw a 50-year-old man sitting on the floor watching a soccer game. Since I had nothing else to do, I took off my shoes as a courtesy, and sat down to