The fall is here or has been or what to call it when it's minus degrees outside already... At least there are beautiful colors everywhere when the leaves are falling off! I will upload some more pics of the wonderful fall when i get to my laptop ;)

Now I'm in the train on my way to the Baltics. One week of Tallinn, Riga and Vilnius with a bunch of exchange students. Gonna be grand! Though I still have to write a little on my thesis on the trip.

 

 

Finally! I'm going to London and it's gonna be awesome! 

I don't know how I will fit in all the things I want to see in one week... I'm looking forward to it so bad, I just want to leave right away! 

And the best part is that I'm going with my best friend L from France. We are meeting in London 24th of October, if we find our way! :D

 

Day 3 at Yogya we were going back to Jakarta, by train. We wanted to take the train to see a little of the countryside of Java. The train left a little early in the morning so we slept for  while in the train first, but the nature when I woke up was beautiful. There was mountains and rice fields and djungles. The photos are quite bad though when you take them from inside a moving train but I tried my best. 

The train was almost 8 hours from Yogya to Jakarta and was very boring when you forgot your headphones in your place in Jakarta. There was some movies playing in the train so I tried focusing on that. 

Back in Jakarta I went to get my passport back from the Immigration office. That was a Thursday and I was leaving to Finland on Sunday.. Guess if I was nervous that I wouldn't get it back before I had to leave... So pointers if you wanna go to Indonesia for a longer stay, get your passport renewed in time, cuz they are fluffing slow ther! 

 

Day 2 we woke up at 3.30am as the car was going at 4am from the Hostel to the temples outside Yogya. We decided to see the temples from the mountain beside the Borobudur temple. The car drive was the bumpiest ride I have ever been on, then there was a little hike to the top of the hill. From the hill we saw the sun rise at almost exactly 6.03.

After the sunrise we took the car down to the temples; for some breakfast. A dry bread with some jam on, some weird fruits and a cup of tea. After this we went to see the mighty temple Borobudur, a buddhist temple that no one knows how it got there. It took a couple of hours and when we were done we went on to the next temple. The ride to that temple was even worse...

The next temple was called Prambanan, and was a Hindu temple. Almost as mighty as Borobudur. We were quite exhausted at this time from all the walking so it got a little boring.. 

When we got back to the hostel we slept for a bit before we went to the market place again to buy some souvenirs and eat some Indonesian food.

 

The last week in Indonesia I didn't have any work, just holiday, so then I went traveling! I wanted to see what all the fuss was about in Yogyakarta with the temples they had there so me and a Polish girl flew to Yogya on tuesday morning the 4 of August. 

We tried to take the bus to the hostel and we managed it, but when we got to the hostel we couldn't check in because it was too early. And as we flew from Jakarta 6 am we were fairly tired so we slept for a while outside the hostel in their Gazebo.

We still had to wait for a while until we got our room so we went to find the closest grocery store to find something to eat and then we went to an internet café. At 2pm we got to check in to the hostel. We then dropped our stuff there and went to see the main street in Yogya. There were a lot of stands there with souvenirs and other things to buy; and I bought myself a comfortable pair of pants. We also tried to go for a ride on a bike, it was basically a chair in front of a bike with a super old man biking around. Thank god it had a small engine, otherwise we wouldn't have got anywhere! 

After this we then found our way back to the hostel for some hours of sleep before the early morning rise the next day!

 

Sorry for no updates lately I have been a bit busy.. I got home to Finland 2 weeks ago and have been working since.. Was a whole lot of traveling to come home, over 18 hours of flight..

 

Now i will also try to focus more on my thesis so i can graduate from school and maybe start working somewhere! (:

 

I still have some pics from Indonesia that I need to show you! 

 

This is were I have been living for the past three months in North Jakarta. You can even see this huge building when you fly in to Jakarta. I live in one of the smaller towers on the 31th floor, high enough... In the middle of these buildings there is also a mall, which have not been good to me or my luggage ^^

 

This is the last week of work here in Indonesia! As fun as it has been it's gonna be great to get home to Finland!

I miss the food from home, hot water in the shower and of course all my friends and family.

Next week I will go to Yogjakarta with another intern here in Jakarta. I want to visit Borobudur before I leave.

 

This weekend was a long weekend in Indonesia. The muslim is celebrating their "christmas" so we had holiday from Thursday to Tuesday. Very nice time to relax and do nothing ^^

Thursday I went for lunch with the office people and afterwards I went with some girls to give food to the poor people in Jakarta.

Friday and SaturdayI were in Tangerang with some work mates celebrating the Idul Fitri, with food and cakes.

Sunday was spent at Ancol Waterpark just relaxing in the water under the sun.

Monday I spent by the pool at my building, getting red as a firetruck... It still burns!!.. Yesterday I went to see the movie Ant-Man. I thought it was gonna be some stupid childrens movie, but it was actually kind of cool! :D

 

 

We have been filming different spots from work, to our Independance Day Event at Hype next month. Last week we were at the National Monument. This week we have been at Kota Tua, the old town, to a miniature park of Indonesia and a spot were some rebels killed someone I think.

 

Both Saturday and Sunday were spent at Ancol. Saturday first at the theme park Dufan, riding some attractions and having fun! 

 

 

Sunday I met another intern here in Jakarta, we went to Ancol again. This time to go walk around a park and then alongside the beach.

 

The last two weekends we have had the Hype Festival in North Jakarta. Here are some pics!! (: 

 

 

Some food here in Indonesia is really good and some other is just weird! It also depends were you eat it. A couple of days ago I had Siomay, which is some kind of fish ball or something, that you eat with peanut sauce and a little soya. It is quite alright cuz it doesn't taste like fish. You can see in the picture (:

 

This weekend we are arranging with some other companies a big festival/bazaar in Nort Jakarta in a place called PIK. At the bazaar there are going to be a lot of food vendors and also fashion and lkifestyle vendors. It is going to be so much fun!

Last Saturday we had a meeting at the place, preparing for this weekend. More pics after the weekend! (:

Saturday evening was spent at Central Park, a big mall in Jakarta, eating and shopping. After the shopping mall we went to a small place to try durian ice cream. If anyone of you know what durian is you know that it smells really bad, and i can tell you the taste is not that good either... Well at least i have tried it now!

 

This weekend was spent celebrating myself and another girl from the office. Friday I met another intern in Jakarta and we went to a club in South Jakarta. I also got to practise a little Indonesian on the way home, cuz the driver didn't know where to turn :D a little proud of myself there!

 

 

Saturday I spent at the pool, have to get a little brown too when I'm here! Sitting inside all days doesn't make me brown..

In the evening the whole gang from the office plus a couple of more people went to another club. It was so much fun going out with everyone from the office!