Knowing where to go

While I’m hear I want to learn about the culture as well as the language… So I’m taking a class in Gamelan at UGM, its a traditional Indonesian orchestra, anyway, I’m also interested in learning Javanese dance, so I mentioned it to Ijo, and he said I can probably start in the upcoming semester (out side of uni, so there’s not long to wait) he’s been learning for about a year and has a performance coming up, he invited me to come and watch him rehearse. We met at gramedia, and I just followed him there on my bike.. I think I’ve realized, the hardest thing about riding a motorbike (well… its really a scooter.. But here they say “automatic motorbike” haha) anyway… the hardest part is knowing where to go, so its lucky I had someone to follow.

There were a few other dancers practicing when we got there, it all looked really nice, I was looking forward to the actual performance. Ijo went on and did his thing, I took a bunch of photos and filmed a little, when I showed it to him he was so happy. He had never seen himself dance, he thought he was worse that he actually is.. Haha.. But it was good cause he could watch what he had just done and then see the areas he thought needed improvement. I hope I can dance as well as him after one year! 

(oh.. And sorry for all the delays with EVERYTHING! Haha… late posts.. Barely any photos… etc etc… well.. I’ve uploaded a heap of photos to my facebook, so If you’ve got it, go check em out there!! … but yeah, hopefully I will get around to uploading some soon…)

The other Anak ACICIS went out to some pizza place which was awesome apparently, but by the time we finished up at the dance place it was too late to meet them. So Ijo took me back to his place, which happens to be the same kos as Indra! So I had a quick chat to him before we went out for dinner at a near by warung. It had the nicest food, and the sambal! Gee was it hot! Haha.. You should have see Ijo! It was so funny, he finished off his sambal, sweating, sniffing and crying from the heat.. And then wanted mine! Haha.. Crazy… tho, after eating there, food in other places didn’t seem so hot anymore.

The journey home was also an interesting one. Ijo pointed me in the direction of Amplaz, and I should have been able to find my way home from there… but some how I missed the turn off, and ended up on the ring road, not only that, but it was night, and raining… aku kehujanan! I had no idea where I was going, so I stopped on the side of the road to ask a parkir.. I eventually found my way home, but it took about twice as long as it should have… see the hardest part really is knowing where to go.