Tag: Bogor
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Goodbye Indonesia: Last day at Work
My last day in YCM was a great day. Several events fell together. There was the movie-making, the Music Festival and of course my Goodbye Party. While the first two parts would be already enough for a blog post each on its own, I decided for now to only tell you about my goodbye. Many…
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YCM Activitites: Green Earth Indonesia
One of these days Green Earth Indonesia visited us. Their main work field is renaturation of former mining areas. The problem in Indonesia is, that dangerous chemicals are used in the mining process. Thus the earth there is literally dead after the mining ends. Normally renaturation happens on its own, but not under these circumstances.…
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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…
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Indotrip: The Beginning is the End
This had been the three fastest weeks of my life, at least it felt like that. I remember like it was yesterday how I waited at the Jakarta International Airport for two hours because my two good friends Hanke und Adrian wouldn’t come out. But actually yesterday I saw them walk back into the Jakarta…
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Visitors on short Notice
Friday, a normal day at work until I got an short message in the midday break. Anja, a german that prepared me last may for Indonesia, was travelling around Indonesia. She asked if she could come by with her friend for a couple of days. After a few calls everything was settled and saturday afternoon…
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Monthly visit at the Immigration Office
Already four week over? Seems so, because it is time again to go to the Immigration Office. Nothing exciting though. I just need to sign some papers. But it is every month. Lucky the “weltwärts”-participants who come next year because they will get a one-year visa. Schon wieder vier Wochen rum? Scheint so, denn es…
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Time to blog
I know, I know. It has been quite a time since i wrote you guys the last time and I’m sorry. Here I am now, sitting on the Veranda of the Yogyakarta building in my family’s restaurant. The rain falls on the trees and in the fish ponds in front of me. The birds are…
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A new Home
I don’t know when you will actually read this post, since I still have to look how to manage all the things with the internet, but I’m writting it for you anyway. It might be that you get like several posts at once. So all I did today was pretty much await the very moment…