Decided to head off to Bali for the weekend to meet up with Farah and Janhavi who were also here for Janhavi's last weekend in Indonesia. But on Thursday got a very pleasant surprise from Prakash (my boss) who asked me if I wanted to stay for the week to check out the women's programs and naturally took me all of about 3 seconds to say hell yes! So now I am staying at the Lodge with no return ticket which is ok by me... But first before Bali there was our housew...

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...

Jimmy and I are now all settled in our new apartment in Tower 14 in Taman Rasuna! It's much nicer than the last one - it has so many couches :) - and a much better location also so we don't have to walk 5km just to see everyone else! (Probably wasn't 5km but it was 4 lifts sometimes) Still waiting to organise our house warming as there is way too much happening on the weekends at the moment. We have another long weekend coming up to celebrate Indonesian independe...

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...