Saturday, February 24, 2007

For all of you who were waiting with bated breath to find out if your guesses were correct, here are the answers:
fokus = focus
Inggris = English
coklat = chocolate
sekolah = school
gubernur = governor
presiden = president
Cina = China
teori = theory
foto = photograph
presentasi = presentation
air = water
amplop = envelope
motor = motorcycle
bis = bus
dokter = doctor
turis = tourist
potret = portrait
bola = ball
kualitas = quality
vokal = vocal
agen = agent
demokrasi = democracy

Here in Indonesia as of late there have been a lot of disasters. Some natural, some man-caused. There is a mud volcano in East Java that has been spewing mud for nine months now. So far it has swallowed up five villages. Lots of experts from other countries have been brought in to discuss this and see what can be done. Some blame it on the Yogjakarta earthquake, others blame it on the oil drilling that is being done there. But some Indonesian experts have come up with a fabulous idea. Their idea is to drop a ton (or more) of concrete balls attached by chains into the volcano itself. They think this might help slow the flow of mud.... What do you think?

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