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not a traveler story (part 1)

So, remember how I complained about my last holiday? Well, this holiday, I've got an amazing journey. It all started when I accepted Sakti's offer about being Negara on Study's (NOS) crew to Purbalingga and Yogyakarta. We planned to visit the government's office and did some social project in one of Purbalingga's village.

Sunday night, around 8 p.m., our bus were set to Purbalingga. Sure we stopped at some rest areas to pray and get food and loo thingy, and we arrived at Purbalingga around 4.15 a.m.! Well that was quite fast because I thought it would be a long journey like the previous NOS to Solo (yea well of course it took a long time to go to Solo..). After Subuh prayer, we checked in to the hotel and my roommates were Ifa (again, yeay), Chintia, and Adel. We took a rest and went to the government office at.. around 9? or was it 10 a.m.? heh, I forgot. :p

We went to the Purbalingga's government office because we wanted to learn how Purbalingga succeeded in becoming one of the investor-friendliest-city and you have to know that Purbalingga's regent came to see us and explained everything about Purbalingga! Afterwards, we visited one of eyelashes factories in Purbalingga. We looked at how they made handmade eyelashes, and we got one sample eyelashes for each! cool! although, I know that I wouldn't use it, I took it and gave it to Laura :p

the regent explained about Purbalingga



At noon, we left for Kejobong where Negara Berbagi's crew would do their social project. It was fun. We played with kids, invited to an inauguration of the village's library, and.. ate a lot! trust me, a lot. oh FYI, we have to walk through the rice fields, corn fields, and other kind of fields to reach our bus because it couldn't pass. It was around 11 p.m. when we walked and some of us were scared of snakes and other creepy things, so we used flashlights from cellphones to light our path, literally. It was day one and it was fun, it was.. too much food (we ate 4-5 times a day!) and it was also tiring.. :D
way to Kejobong
playing with the kids!
the inauguration of the library!

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