Indonesian Time

Today there was supposed to be a dance class on at 4pm… I thought I’d check it out with some friends, but 4pm came around and we were still at a lesehan eating lunch… so I asked what time the class was on… 4pm I was told again… “but its 4 now!” …. “oh, I mean 4 Indonesian time” … haha… I’m slowly learning this concept of Indonesian time… anyway, we got to the class (after being caught in the rain yet again) half an hour late… and it hadn’t started yet.. Haha.. It turned out that they were only going dances for the girls, so I just watched for a bit and then Nikken took me over to the back room where all the gamelan are, she introduced me to a guy there and he started telling me about all the gamelan. I sat down to have a play and before long there was about 10 others all in the gamelan room suddenly we were all playing gamelan music together! It was great! We were only doing simple stuff, and some of it was still difficult! Mainly because you can’t look at what your hands are doing, you have to constantly look at the music. And also your left hand must mimic your right, but its always one step behind… I dunno if this is making sense.. Haha.. But anyway, I’m taking it as a class at UGM, so it was kind of like a test drive… and I have to say, I loved it! Can’t wait to get started in the proper lessons!