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Kyle's Adventure to Snake Street
... to my driveway the school van pulled up right behind me and I had just enough time to give Kyle a kiss goodbye, and then he was gone to Jakarta.
Kyle had gone to Jakarta for training in preparation of the IGSCE Cambridge Exams. The Secondary school had sent all of their English teachers and their IT teacher to go along, so Kyle was going to have good Philippino company going to Jakarta.
This training was not only for ...
Day 2 For Us. Day 6 For Them.
... the river banks and the congested streets of Jakarta. I wish I could just take videos on the drive in, because there is so much to see and soak in. However, I do enjoy relaxing and taking in the view myself. Eventually I'll get my iPod out and get videos of the driving, the shops that push out onto the road, bursting forth from their newly renovated buildings. The people smile and nod in greeting, and then zoom about on these motorbikes ...
Site-seeing
... Resti) but Tari was sick so stayed for a while. She thankfully did return to KDM. It was sad thinking she lived and slept and begged on the streets again after being in KDM and surely that is no good for her well-being). Apparently one of the other girls (Saripa) also ran away from KDM and was out playing music to beg for money when we went to Old City (she is based in Old City ...
Are we nearly there yet?
Sunday 6_11-11
Singapore to Jakarta
Up early and out by 8 to get to the airport for check in as our flights at 10.20. We get there and find out it was cancelled but we were never told! Fon got mad at the really unhelpful woman and finally got a flight to Jakarta at5.40pm! Not only does that mean we are here for 8 hours but we also are going to ...
Magic Mushrooms, Orangutans and Ubud
... her shop, blessing
it and saying a prayer to ask for a few more sales. We also went to a really old temple and saw old women washing themselves totally naked from the waist up, wearing traditional Balinese
costumes. It does make you realise how swamped the rest of Indonesia is with shopping malls and ugly buildings. I'm not sure when it happened, but Bali is just so beautiful compared to everywhere else - its really strange. Even the buildings ...