About to complete the first 6 weeks of language training. So far, things have been progressing well but considering I'm a 1/4 through my language training, I'm still nervous about reaching the level I need to complete it.
For Indonesian language, there were almost 30 people enrolled taking the class. Two thirds of the students are State employees with USAID making the last third. For the first 2 1/2 weeks of class, they had all students together in one big class to learn the fundamentals of the language and basic vocabulary. After that, students were then split up into groups of four for the rest of the training.
One thing that I think is nice about learning Indonesian is that all the people in the class will be going to the same country, mostly all to the city of Jakarta with a smaller subset going to Surabaya. This is different than languages such as French or Spanish where people will be put into countries all over the world where that language might be used.
So since we're all going to the same country, we have the opportunity to get to know the same people we will be working and living with in the embassy community next year. It's a nice to already have a network established before even reaching the country!
Now, back to studying!
