The Independence Day long weekend was my first opportunity since I got here to get out of Jakarta and I wasn't about to waste the time. While most of our group headed off to Bali for some sun, footy and partying Al and I chose to go to Sulawesi with 3 of her workmates: Farah, Janhavi and Nita. We flew into Makassar, on the south-west tip of Sulawesi, a sprawling port town of over 1 million people. Was quite beautiful to fly into, especially with the mountains in...

basically once the national tournament finished we were busy preparing for the international tournament. Also managed to fit in some socialising along the way which was nice. Had dinner one night with a whole lot of people who work at AusAID and it was good to meet them! And boy do AusAID staff get to live in the lap of luxury over here or what!! (Sorry julz and peter!) Certainly makes my little flat look very humble compared to what they get! Basically the tou...

We somehow survived the national tournament unscathed and in reasonable health. Overall it was a huge success :) In some ways it was nothing like any national tournament I ever went to for rep cricket but in other ways it was just the same. We had 150 kids from 15 provinces there and they all seemed to enjoy themselves a lot. We kicked things off with a press conference on the Saturday which went really well and we got some good press out of it. Then it was out t...