I am sitting on a plane waiting to fly to Indonesia now. I am meeting Brandt again which is good. It will be fun to catch up with him. I feel like I have missed out on some adventures. I look forward to some new adventures. I really enjoyed being with Mae and family. Certainly a slower pace then what I am used to but it was nice and I really needed the time to recover.
Reunited and it feels so good. Met up with Brandt. Well actually had a rough time getting to that point. I took a cab from the airport which dropped me off at the wrong place. Then I had to take another taxi to my place. I met Brandt at the hotel then we went out to grab some food. Prices are good here. We grabbed a huge meal for $1.50 which is 18000 rupiah. Talk about monopoly
Money. I took 1.5 million rupiah out at the airport.
Brandt met a friend through couch surfers that took us all over today named Maury. She has been really nice. She came and picked us up and we first went to a place called mini Indonesia. Kind if a cool cultural area. Indonesia is 17 thousand islands and each area has their own culture. So this kind of showed some of the culture within the different sections of Indonesia. It was cool. We mostly just checked out the buildings. They also had a bi pond and in the pod were islands that were shaped to represent a map of Indonesia.
Pond with map of indo in the background
After that we grabbed some lunch at a nicer restaurant. It was good. Then we went to the zoo. Which was fun. We got to see hippos so I was pretty stoked on it.
A few things about Indo. They drive on the left. They are 90% Muslim so five times a day we get to hear the call to prayer. It's really cool. Apparently they like taking pictures with bule (white folks). We had quite a few people ask to take pictures with us.
It's been fun trying to remember the language. I remember really random words. I remember more than I thought I would but it's so far from
Being conversational vocabulary it really is pretty useless it's fun though.
Jakarta is a huge city and we are in west Jakarta which isn't really the nicest part although our hotel is quite nice. We keep being told that we are far away from everything so tomorrow we will either stay at the beach we are visiting or we will move more centrally. Probably closer to southern Jakarta.
Tomorrow is going to be an early
Morning. We meet up at 6:30 to head to the beach.
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