Take Your Obama Gifts Back, Menteng School Tells Donors
March 19, 2010
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364687Peroblanco, I am as guilty of this as you, but my girlfriend has just raged upon seeing the word 'bahasa' being used in place of 'Indonesian' or 'Bahasa Indonesia'. Well done. It usually takes my insensitivity to incur such wrath. You took the heat off me. Good work.
This is why, kids, you don't count your chickens until they've hatched. Or in bahasa, makanyaaa belum apa-apa jangan histeris dulu.
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One of Barack Obama's childhood schools in Jakarta has asked people to reclaim souvenirs they sent for the American president.
Hasimah, the principal of SDN Menteng 01 elementary school, said many people around Indonesia had mailed the items to Jakarta since the former Jakarta resident's plans to visit were announced months ago.
“They called first and told us they wanted to send gifts for President Obama,” said the school principal Hasimah in detik.com. The items include notebooks, paintings, shadow puppets and precious gems. The school has tried to discourage people from sending the souvenirs because they fill an entire room and presidential protocol dictates that Obama can only accept a sigle, small memento. Thus, the school planned to give him a plaque.
After the White House announced late on Thursday that the president would not come until June, the school decided to return the gifts to their donors.
“For everyone who has sent souvenirs for President Obama to our school, please come and collect it because he is not coming,” said Hasimah.
JG
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