Keeping excitment...

Back again. J

That’s fast – there is already one fifth of my stay behind me, so what’s new?

I have already had my welcome party (after about one month). Was very nice – we got to know the other trainees and a lot of AIESEC guys, who has just come and then went to have fun in a club.

Anyway generally, have to say, that the AIESEC guys here are very nice – all the time inviting us somewhere and trying to help with anything needed. (If you read this thank you. :/D) I am starting speaking a bit of Indonesian – having some random short conversations with random Indonesian people. :-D

I have missed the proper New Year here, but still experienced already 2 other. J First was right after I came around 10^th of January (Muslims’ New Year) and another one on around 10 February (Chinese one). (This is how the typical celebration of it looks like)

When I wrote that Europeans are popular here I didn’t even know what all was gonna happen. J

1) One of the Shopping malls invited us (me and other 2 guys from Europe) to be a “prize”. :-D They organized a think called “blind date” put a promotion into radio and around the shopping mall – offering a candle diner with one of the three “bule” guys. J It was fun, the only defect was that my blind date girl didn’t almost speak English. :)

(Don't laugh - I also didn't know what they were gonna write to the billboard, but at least you see, how they perceive us here.) ;)

And the other thing is, that I have been invited to be an “invited speaker” for some conference focused on increasing of quality of human resources, where they expect some 500 people… (It is not an AIESEC conference, but a real one. ;-) ) But looking forward – it’s taking place in central Java, so I’ll see some new places.. J

Last of trips I have done was with my colleague (you can guess which one it is ;-p) to Bandung ZOO.

It's been tiring.... :)

Since I haven’t posted anything about my boarding house yet, here are some pictures… The place is really nice – even it pampers us in some way – there is for example a maid, who washes the dishes and does laundry for us. J

/My tiny room, living room, house owner, and the hell equipment for showering. :) /

We have some more and some less beautiful animals in the house. J

Than this weekend I’ll hopefully go to see Jakarta, so next time I could post some pictures from there..

Last important thing – I have changed my phone (if someone cares. J). My new number is +6287821047568. I changed it because I was not able to send messages to Vodafone and Tmobile in Czech.. Now I can, but for a change – I can’t receive messages from O2. L This sucks. :-/ Anyway you can still write at least to my Czech number since I usually switch it on once in 2 days (or email).

Take care and write what’s new about you. ;)

Martin

(Eating sate from typical Indonesian plate - banana leaf)