It's not one month when the plane landed in Djakarta and my
legs touched the land
of Indonesia
The moment you go outside of the airport, the sensation of
heat wraps your body and it does not let it go. Ever. It is never cool here.
It's always hot and humid. I'm sitting in the room with no direct sunlight, at
my, now, home in Semarang
with an air condition blowing artificial wind towards me. And I'm still hot. All
I want to do is lie somewhere and do not move... Well, this is not an option
right now.
In spite of the heat, I'm enjoying myself in Indonesia
immensely. So many things are different here that I get excited about even the
small details. So, some impressions...
Insects, reptiles and others. Lizards everywhere: on the
ceilings in the warungs (small eating places), at home, in the toilets.
Cockroaches? Of course, huge ones. Frogs in the houses, and, of course, some
unrecognized insects....
The ceilings of one "warung"
The house where I live in Semarang is big and spacious. Me and my
partner for my project from Poland ,
Julia, (about it I write later, when I start to work seriously on it) share a
room. One more permanent lodger is an Indonesian, whose name is Tony. All the
other place is for the migrating volunteers. Since the moment I arrived, the
house was always crowed, but since today, at least for a while, it's just me,
Julia and Tony...
There are no beds, chairs and tables in the house. For me,
this absence of chairs and table is really uncomfortable. I'm always moving and
changing positions.
Local food is tasty and very spicy. One has to avoid the
sauce "sambal", because it leaves the burning sensation in the mouth
for quite a long. The main component of food is rice. Indonesians eat the for
breakfast, lunch and dinner. Sometimes, it's a bit too much for me. Therefore,
I'm really glad for the noodles. They make it perfectly here:)
The main language of Indonesia – Bahasa Indonesia is a
very easy language. Relatively, of course. The structure is really simple: no genders, no tenses. But
many many words. I really hope that after few months I'm gonna speak at least a
rudimentary Bahasa.
After few days in Semarang, and 1,5 lessons of Bahasa, the
hosting organization took all the EVS volunteers (2 from Lithuania, 2 from
Poland, 2 from Italy and 2 from Spain) and with some local volunteers and we
went for a 26 hour trip by bus. +2 hours trip by boat.
On the boat road to heaven:)
This on arrival training was 5 days in heaven, in a small
village called Taman Jaya. This village is the last stop before the Ujung Kulon
national park. This park is the refuge of the very endangered Javan rhinoceros.
We were unlucky to see any of them, but we saw a crocodile. Just one day after
swimming in the same water. After that, no one entered the water. Even though
the heat was impossible:)
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The village of Taman Jaya
The return trip was even longer. It took 30 hours to come
back to Semarang .
After this all "The other way" project's participants parted their
ways, and me and Julia stayed in Semarang .
I'll write about this crazy, chaotic city some time later:)
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