Ruby Saha ‘14, Gadjah Mada University Fellow

The hotel where I stayed displayed photos of boats that had crashed into houses miles away from shore, some of which remain in situ today as memorials and tourist attractions. But it was hard to map these images of debris and desolation onto the clean, quiet little space I traversed between the hotel and the public school where I taught for a week.

Ruby Saha ‘14, Gadjah Mada University Fellow

Saturday night; it’s early still. The band was supposed to play thirty minutes ago, but the stereo carries on blasting eighties hits to an empty bar. Dim bluish lights play across the curved spines of servers slumped over the bar with only a few faded Marley posters for company. Paper bats flap lazily in the hazy corners, lingering remnants from Halloween half a year ago.