Month: June 2010

  • Indotrip: Eating the Indonesian Way

    So, for now YCM events and parts of the Indotrip will be presented in turns. When my friends arrived in Indonesia, we had an aweful long trip to Bogor in the bus since it was rush hour in Jakarta. When is it not rush hour in Jakarta? Anyways, we got to Bogor totally starved, we…

  • YCM Colleagues: Rafting

    Now back in Indonesia I finally have time to tell you about my adventures in YCM before I will tell you more about my famous Indotrip. If there is one thing important in en NGO its a good work environment. Many things are part of a good work environment, so is the teamplay of the…

  • Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-27

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  • Malaysian Adventures: Time’s up

    By the time I’m writing this I’m already sitting in my room in Bogor. I made it back home. The last two days in Malaysia I had to spend in the Embassies. First in the German, later on in the Indonesian. But after some time I had it all figured out and was ready to…

  • Malaysian Adventures: A City from above

    I am not really sure whether I should find it positive or negative to stay in Malaysia for a longer time. I won’t be able to get back to Indonesia before next Tuesday, maybe even later. Thanks to AFS I can stay in another host family which had been very kind to me. I am…

  • Too much to report

    I greed you from Malaysia. Yeah you heard me right. I’m not in Indonesia any more. I’m not done yet telling out about my Indotrip. Further I had some activities from YCM, but first I’ll tell you about this Malaysian Adventures. For unknown reasons my visa wasn’t extended anymore, so me and Stefan had to…

  • Indotrip: A River in the Jungle

    When we had been in Bukit Lawang we were trekking for a day in the jungle. We have seen a lot, but that shall be another story. After the trekking we reached an beautiful river with a small laguna. There we stayed and took a bath in water after hours and hours of sweating. We…

  • Flattring

    You might think I missed an ‘e’ in flattering, but I didn’t. Today I’d like to present you a social micropayment service. As you might have noticed, a new button has arrived under my blog called ‘flattr’ – there is also a facebook like-button, press it if you liked what you read. What is this…

  • Indotrip: Bira

    So today I’m running a bit late in writing you for several reasons. Today I’m going to tell you about our stay in Bira. A sleepy seaside village at the south-eastern part of South Sulawesi. If you come under the week you may even wonder how there could be tourism at all in such a…

  • Indotrip: Hotel Carolina

    One remarkable place on our trip was the Hotel California – wait Hotel Carolina – we stayed in Tuk Tuk, a peninsula on the peninsula of Samosir in Lake Toba. If you’re still confused by California, Tuk Tuks (really not the transportation!) or the peninsula on the peninsula, take your time. For the others I…