Towards end of the semester I got news that a good friend of mine/my savior cause he introduced me to the real weight-training/yoga instructor/Jogja travel companion who happened to be the most seek-after bachelor in Salatiga, left for good. What a shock! I was thinking what would my life be doing yoga and weight-lifting without him? And Salatiga without him would be like Hollywood without Brad Pitt/Hollywood without page six gossip columns! I tried to change his mind but it didn’t work. So we finally let him go to where he belongs, the great country of America. I was able to spend some time with him, travelled to Jogja and shared a lot of things about life on that trip.
Christmas time! In recent years, I’ve never really had a good relaxing Christmas time. There is always tons of work and there is always bunch of events going on that make it hard to enjoy the season. This year is no different than those past few years. But it didn’t stop me to be thankful because I had a good bite of enjoying Christmas in a different way.
I counted there were 4 different Christmas parties that I attended last year. The first one was the Solafide X-mas Party. The dress code of this year’s party was white. See the previous blog.
The second and third parties were on the same day and almost exactly at the same time. I managed to attend both of them. Peco, a good friend of mine, teaches English for some students in Salatiga. Most of his students are Moslems but as part of their appreciation and respect to Peco for teaching them English, they organized a Christmas party for him. I was there only for an hour and sadly missed the chance to hear him spoke about the meaning of Christmas. I was glad that he had the opportunity to share about it with our Moslem’s friends. For more story about this go to http://pecohicks.blogspot.com/
After Peco’s, I rushed to a Christmas dinner party hosted by my wonderful friends Shane and Lindsay. I loved the way they organized the whole things. The meal was great; we had turkey plus all the yummy American foods which I couldn’t remember what those were. We moved to the family room after dinner and had White Elephant game. The game was new to most of us but was fun to play. I got the chance to steal Mega’s present! Afterwards, we just hang out, had coffee and tea and talked about different things. It was relaxing, warm and intimate evening.
Sadly though, I wasn’t able to spend Christmas with my family this year. I decided that I wanted to getaway from Salatiga and needed some time off of everything. I went to visit my family the weekend before we left and spent a good deal of time with them. On the pictures are my nieces and nephews, plus my Mom and sister. I didn't get a chance to take pictures of all of us, cause sometimes you just didnt' know where they were. :)
It was exciting because I was able to meet up with my dear friend Mona and her hubby plus their new baby daughter as well on the same weekend. I enjoyed sharing stories with them and was able to getting to know little Maura a little bit.
My next blog would be my adventure with three other guys in a land called the Island of God.
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