Okay I have been a little bit too busy for blogging this last week or two.. I can't even remember what happened last week.. Oh yes, St Patrick's Day.. That's probably why I don't remember much. We had a party at some acicis' people's new place that Ben & Peezy will move in to when I leave. They have a huge & impressive house. The party was a lot of fun, there were many sore heads the next day. Dress up parties seem to go off around here. There should be another next week. We made a huge mess but their poor maid arrived the next day to clean it up.. Wednesday was a massive scum day, while two of my friends went off to pick dragon fruit, I couldn't drag myself out of bed. Dragon fruit is quite tart & very red, will stain your clothes, let alone your fingers.
Thursday night was St Patrick's Day. Canada & I met at the gym in the morning, followed by a swim & then cycled home in the pouring rain. The wet season is seeming to be coming to end. Though it doesn't rain every day it is raining right now. Pretty miserable day today. Not as hot here either. Anyway, getting off track, a group of bule's (foreigners) got together at the Banana Leaf Cafe & decked ourselves in our best greenery, downed some guinness & anything else we could get our hands on. It was a really good night. The men at the bar were so camp it wasn't funny. I was dancing with one to a street band, he then got angry with me when I was dancing with him to Rihanna & pulled his hair in a playful manner.. He shrieked louder than I have ever heard a man shriek.. well I don't think I have actually ever heard a man shriek before. My other dance partner liked the hair pull move so I decided to dance with him instead. The gay Indo guy was not happy there after. We had a pretty late night. I was 'out of control' aka drunk doing the usual playful punching/kicking behaviour that takes over me after too many drinks. Also the strangler came out. That hasn't happened much here yet. I think St Pat's must be my drunkest night yet. This is good. So yet another scummy day followed on Friday.
Saturday morning 2am saw us meet at a Warung with a group of Indo guys I hadn't met before & a few friends. We headed off on our road trip to get to Karimun Jawa. It took 5 hours by car & 4 by ferry. A 2am start following a hangover is pretty hard to handle so most of us slept during the trip. It was great to get out of Jogja & see the more rural Java. We would have driven up to the north of Java from where we are which is the south. The archipelago of Kamirun Jawa is beautiful. Very pristine though you still see plastic floating around in the water. But many of the islands had no inhabitants or maybe 3 or so. The reefs hosted amazing tropical fish of many colours & I finally learned how to snorkel. It was great. The men on the boat with us would jump out into the crystal blue or deep blue seas & spear fish, that they then cooked for lunch. I tried to eat some, it was definitely tasty but I think I may have even given up fish now. I couldn't bear to eat a fish that was whole on my plate. Anyway it was absolute paradise. We stayed on a 'hotel' on stilts in the middle of the ocean, they had a shark pool with sting rays & little nemo fish. The Indo guys were great & very fun to hang out with. After a six hour ferry back to the mainland on Tuesday we drove another 8 hours to get back to Jogja. Very exhausting!
Last night checked out the final Bball match between two universities here, UGM vs UNY. It was so loud & the crowd went nuts. Then checked out some live jazz with a group of friends. Oh and yoga with sweden & canada. I am getting better at bending my body into insane positions. These classes are not your typical classes you would find in Australia. Always using different aparatus & wooden blocks, I even had five kilo weights placed on my legs to try and make them stretch more. The classroom is extremely warm with a fan that barely does a thing.
Tonight we are off to Banjarmasin with Lion Air. Banjarmasin is in South Kalimantan in Borneo. We will spend tonight there then off to a small island where our friend who studies here is from. We are being accommodated by the government & will be speaking with the government and schools about empowerment through education. It is going to be very interesting especially since we haven't really organised anything to say yet. We will do that tonight. I am doing a speech in Indonesian to one school & Peezy will do the other one.
We have had tshirts made for this trip to wear to the schools etc. It seems like it will be a big deal for them, I don't think foreigners come to this island very much.
Will back back to Jogja on Monday then only a week and a half left.
Booked flights to KL & onto Chiang Mai.
Will miss being here I think.
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