Fun

I feel the compulsive need to categorize my experiences in Indonesia. And the ones described below definitely falls under “fun”.

Fun in the nature. Waterfall

After yet another out of town tourism conference my boss suddenly decided to be really nice (not that he’s usually bad..) and take me to see a waterfall on the way back home to Malang. This wasn’t exactly planned so we ended up climbing up 1 km up the mountain with office clothes and shoes. Oh yes, we must have looked totally out of context for the normal tourists. Imagine: nicely dressed boss with shirt and tie, perfectly polished shoes and at the same time sweaty from head to toes climbing up the mountain. And asking me to stop every five minutes. Told him to quit cigarettes and coffee … not that he ever listens. On the top he actually decided to reward himself with meatballs from a stall that possibly breached all the hygiene requirements there are. The conversation was something like that:

Boss: “Do you like meatballs?”

Me: “Not really…”

Boss: “I buy you meatballs”.

I just love his listening skills...

And baaack to the topic. Check out the waterfall:

And you might as well take a look at one of the volcanoes:

Fun in the shopping mall.

Massage

Some time ago me and some other interns had a massage in a shopping mall. Probably the most accurate word to describe it would be powerful. It felt like thumbs of steel were slicing through my ribs and backbone. I still felt my back after two days! Remember the movie “Eurotrip”, when one guy forgot the safe word at one place of…hmm, special kind of experiences? Similarly situation happened to me. One American, who has been living here long enough to speak some bahasa Indonesia, told me what to say if the massage was too hard. Needless to say, I forgot the word after not more than two seconds.

P.S. I paid for the back and shoulders massage and got my ass and legs massage included.. According to our American friend, that is totally normal. Not that I’m complaining.

Different kind of massage

Well, this one was for the feet:

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Special fish which eat the dead skin.

And then top the day with live haunted house and fresh coconut juice. Mhmm.