Competitions
Competitions here are VERY popular. In school curriculum you not only have to teach reading, writing and arithmitic, you also have to teach kids how to win competitions. Everything in me as an American teacher says no you teach team work and working together but here in Indonesia they value competitions from babies crawling the fastest to adults competiting in a variety of activities. There’s a lot of pressure to WIN!
At school we just tried to make these competitions fun and low stress. No pressure, just have fun. Enjoy the pictures.
(In case you look at the pictures and wonder what a grupuk is – it’s an Indonesian cracker more or less and they come in a varity of flavors from ayam (chicken) to udang (shrimp) to sapi (beef) and they are extremely popular here.)
