A day in Paris

Again… What a champion!! Mas Ijo!! On Thursday night a group of Anak ACICIS went to Bandung (I think) for the long weekend. So Ijo decided to organise a trip to the beach for those of us who stayed behind in Jogja! So we all met a Circle K again… its great meeting there cause its only a 10 min walk from my kos! :D Not a lot to tell today.. But it was still heaps of fun!! Haha.

First stop was a dam, but I forget the name of it! I really should remember these things! .. Anyway.. It was pretty nice, we decided to go on a boat ride around it, with 11 Bule, plus Ijo and two drivers the boat was almost underwater.. Haha… you could reach out and touch the water, it was so close. Everyone was freaking out, thinking that we were gonna sink, especially with the dodgy sounding motor and the slight leak in the bottom of the boat, but with most of the hull submerged, what do you expect? Haha… Mitch even went as far as taking off his army boots because he thought for sure we weren’t going to make it back to land and feared not being able to swim with them. Luckily no swimming was required. The drive out of the dam was a long one tho, the road just wound and wound around the mountain, it felt like forever, locals would stop and look as we passed them, I’m not sure if they were looking at the car, or the bule inside.. One young boy even ran up to tough the bus, without realizing he could get run over.

From the dam we went to Glagah beach for lunch.. And almost didn’t make it up one of the steepest slopes, it was pretty tense hearing everyone gasp at the same time as the driver changed down a gear and the bus stopped on this massive slope. I didn’t see much of Glagah tho, was too busy eating lunch, haha.. I was starving after skipping breakfast.

About half an hour away was Pantai Parangtritis (Parangtritis Beach) or Paris. It the first time I had seen black sand on a beach. I think it was made from volcanic rock. The beach was a little dirty, and too dangerous to swim at because of rips. But it was still pretty beautiful. Especially the mist floating near where the cliff face met the water. Ijo grabbed my camera and got snap happy.. Haha.. I’m yet to look at the photos, but I’m sure they’ll come out pretty good… It probably means I’m in some of them, instead of being behind the camera! Haha… thanks Ijo! Oh yeah.. Haha.. We also saw some goats halfway up the cliff and Katie decided to go up and grab it cause it had a leach… Apparently she gave it to some homeless guy near the abandoned hotel at the top.

The drive home seemed a lot quicker than the one there, I guess cause we didn’t go via the dam again.. Haha. Most people went around to Steph’s place that night, she made mie instan with tahu tempe. Nothing too special, but still tasty! Oh yeah, then I taught her roomie and his friend how to play speed! So much fun! Haven’t played it in ages! 

Ooo… and I think it was today... I met another teman kos. He lives out the front… I can’t remember his name tho.. Seems like a pretty cool bloke.. He just randomly came into our lounge room and introduced himself… haha.. So hopefully we see a lot more of him… I mean.. Don’t get me wrong, its good here, but we basically only see one of our teman kos, but hopefully that all changes once uni starts.