Project 365

Today, Ari and I went to Helmond, a city about few minutes from Eindhoven. Jessie picked us up by car and we then went there to visit mbak Dina, who has just given a birth to a baby boy, Jethro. Unfortunately, I didn’t take any pictures of him 🙁 I forgot!

We also went to the castle (pictured) and walked around and had really nice girl talks! Having girlfriends is very important, indeed! We also talked about how hard it’s for Jessie, who’s a Dutch-Indonesian to be in Indonesia. Being a “bule” (westener / foreigner) is annoying; as she always receives too much attention from the people around her and the strangers. Indonesian people look “highly” on the westeners and the result is that, western people receive much better treatment than the local people. That’s what mbak Dina said to us. She tried acting as someone who came from the US (who couldn’t speak Indonesian at all) when she was shopping in the mall. And what happened was that, she got the attention from 3 salespersons who were so kind to help her (would it happen to us, the ordinary Indonesians?!?). Well, I bet not.

Anyway, after hours of girl talks and interesting conversation, we were invited to have dinner at Jessie’s house. It was a fun day! A total full day! Ari and I arrived at home around 10.30pm and we talked and talked for hours until around 3am! Phew! Girls just can’t stop talking when they’re together 😉