Singles Weekend in Jakarta

Part of my first week of school was spent in the hospital with Dengue Fever. After four tiring days, they finally released me from the hospital. I still felt very weak and tired, so a family from school, the Browns, had me stay with them until I felt well enough to move back to good old Taman Hijau.

Later in August, we had a five day weekend. So, a few of the singles decided to get away from school and Lippo Karawaci and head into the big city for a few days. Jakarta is about a 25-minute drive without traffic. With traffic you could be sitting for days without moving.

We pampered ourselves at the Borobudur Hotel, spending our time swimming, reading, eating and eating. A wonderful breakfast buffet was included in the price of the room. So, each morning we would go down and stuff ourselves. We had to get there early though because the Indonesians live for buffets. They literally sat in the restaurant from when it opened in the morning, until lunch time. It was intense. Luckily, each morning they sat us in this huge private conference room. We all joked around that it looked like the boardroom from The Apprentice, you're fired!


A few of the singles: Jess (Canada), Terri (America), Christine (Canada), Carolyn (Australia), Mark (Canada), Me, Amanda (Australia) , Mel (Canada) and the photographer Becky (Canada). I think Mark's feeling pretty special here. :)

A shot of the pool and some of Jakarta- what you can see through the haze of pollution.

Amanda and I after a bit of swimming. Behind us is a model of the actual
Borobudur that's in central Java near Yogyakarta.

One night we went out to dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe Jakarta for dinner then out for a movie at a very fancy theater. The seats were awesome- too bad the movie, Miami Vice, was terrible. It was also shocking to see people bring little kids to see this movie at 9pm! Very sad. Christine and I manning the "boardroom".