Goodbye, Indonesia :( :(
Okay, so sorry I haven't updated in forever. It's been a crazy week or so...
So we had our farewell dinner with all of our host families, etc. and it was super sad. They made me sing...I was not happy. And I had to speak. I was doubly not happy.
Anyway, on Friday we said our real goodbye to our host families. That was really, really sad. Lakshmi and I pretty much lost it and couldn't stop crying. I love these people so much, and literally all I want to do right now is turn my bum around and go back to Malang.
After a really long controversy surrounding the travel arrangements (which we sorted out with much help from lots of people), I hugged everyone (and started crying the second I said goodbye to my host mom - the FIRST person I hugged bye), and we spent 12 hours in a sketchy Indonesian 10-person bus. Also, our bus was totally part of the Indonesian drug ring because we were picking up random "packages" and dropping off said random packages in random creepy places.
We finally made it to Bali, stayed a night in Kuta and then the next morning headed off to our little bungalow that we had found on the Internet. Once we got there, we were really glad to get away from the city. This place was amazing - it was a homestay with houses on stilts on the beach. It was pretty much paradise. And the woman who ran the guesthouse had a really beautiful family. She was Dutch and married a Balinese man. Now they have 3 absolutely gorgeous children. Clearly I need to marry an Indonesian man and have pretty babies. Clearly.
So this morning we got up super early and headed out to the Denpasar airport in Bali. We got a late start (Indonesian time...), got a flat tire along the way, almost missed our flight, got lost and confused a la American tourists many times, and then eventually made it to the Jakarta airport. Had many adventures there, and then flew from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. So we're in our hostel right now (free internet, baby!) and I'm about to crash...
Miss you all!! The Southeast Asia adventure is only beginning...
~ Tori =)
So we had our farewell dinner with all of our host families, etc. and it was super sad. They made me sing...I was not happy. And I had to speak. I was doubly not happy.
Anyway, on Friday we said our real goodbye to our host families. That was really, really sad. Lakshmi and I pretty much lost it and couldn't stop crying. I love these people so much, and literally all I want to do right now is turn my bum around and go back to Malang.
After a really long controversy surrounding the travel arrangements (which we sorted out with much help from lots of people), I hugged everyone (and started crying the second I said goodbye to my host mom - the FIRST person I hugged bye), and we spent 12 hours in a sketchy Indonesian 10-person bus. Also, our bus was totally part of the Indonesian drug ring because we were picking up random "packages" and dropping off said random packages in random creepy places.
We finally made it to Bali, stayed a night in Kuta and then the next morning headed off to our little bungalow that we had found on the Internet. Once we got there, we were really glad to get away from the city. This place was amazing - it was a homestay with houses on stilts on the beach. It was pretty much paradise. And the woman who ran the guesthouse had a really beautiful family. She was Dutch and married a Balinese man. Now they have 3 absolutely gorgeous children. Clearly I need to marry an Indonesian man and have pretty babies. Clearly.
So this morning we got up super early and headed out to the Denpasar airport in Bali. We got a late start (Indonesian time...), got a flat tire along the way, almost missed our flight, got lost and confused a la American tourists many times, and then eventually made it to the Jakarta airport. Had many adventures there, and then flew from Jakarta to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. So we're in our hostel right now (free internet, baby!) and I'm about to crash...
Miss you all!! The Southeast Asia adventure is only beginning...
~ Tori =)
posted by Tori @ 11:07 PM
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