According to Dave I'm not pulling my blog weight, so here is an update from me!
I'm having a fantastic time in Jakarta (once I got over the pool sharing and toasted bread fiasco things started to look up!!), Adrian has been a wonderful host and his apartment has been the perfect place to get over jetlag and prepare for the next 6 months of adventures. Last night Adrian took us to play ultimate frisbee with a group of people he plays with regularily, people from all over the world who live in Jakarta. I've never played before and my frisbee skills are about as good as my soccer or euchre skills (terrible... bad... awful...) but everyone was super nice and it was really fun. Sprinting around for two hours was really surreal though because it is so humid here- it was like playing in a pool of cold soup! To get to the playing field we rode motorbikes; Adrian negotiated with the drivers about price and where we were going so when my driver took off down an alley I had only a vague idea that I was being taken to the right place... a little terrifying! However, my helmetless, dark alley motorbike ride was nothing compared to the awful dead rat I saw earlier in the day, not once, but twice!!!! Dave had a good laugh, along with a street full of people on motorbikes when I leapt into the air and started yelping at this rat belly up on the sidewalk.
Tonight we had a great Indian dinner with some of Adrian's friends who live in Jakarta; most work with him at the embassy. Everyone was really interesting and full of suggestions about where we should go and things we should see. We had dinner with one guy who manages th Canadian embassy in Jakarta. He stated that he was in North Korea several years ago and that he and another woman were the first Canadians to visit North Korea for 10 years! (What do you think of that Corb?)
Tomorrow we're flying to Yogyakarta, with a vague plan to go to Solo, Malang, Bali and Lombok over the next few weeks.
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