Jascha Grübel

Author: Jascha Grübel

  • YCM Activities: Football Day

    I’ve been so busy, that I still couldn’t tell you about the football day yet. This day was some time ago when still all 32 teams were in the World Cup, so don’t wonder about the pictures. The tutors prepared a day full of activities all around the ball. From Quizzes to goal shooting. Everybody…

  • Indotrip: Underwater Adventure

    On our Indotrip we had been to the beautiful and layed-back Gili Islands. We stayed on the more quiet Gili Air, but that didn’t mean we wouldn’t have adventures. We had two opportunities to go snorkeling and each time we could met turtles. We went with the currents along the Islands. One time along the…

  • YCM Activities: Australian Rules Football

    Indonesia has three teams of the Australian Rules Football, colloquially known as Footy, playing in the AFL Indonesia. They are the Jakarta Bintangs, Borneo Bears and Bali Geckos. The Jakarta Bintangs promote the game around Jakarta by organizing local competitions. YCM has two teams in the competition: “Bogor Thunder” and “Pasar Minggu”. In total 6…

  • 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

    5 of 5 stars to Can Asians Think? Fourth Edition by Kishore Mahbubani http://bit.ly/9Aksre #

  • 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…