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Tweet, Pray, Love

My trips have always been a spontaneous reaction, including this

one. Not requiring a visa attracted more towards this island nation,
Indonesia. To be very frank, I did not know much about this nation,

nor was my trip was planned.

got the tickets done, packed my bag, posted a trip on I landed in Jakarta past midnight and luckily the
Couchsurfing and left to Jakarta, all within a day. Within immigration process took me only five minutes instead
I a few hours, I received invitations from several people of two hours, thanks to relatively less passengers. My
in Jakarta to host and meet me. I was surprised and host had offered me a pickup service for early morning,
confused, because this was my first trip abroad and my but I was ahead of schedule and did not want to disturb
first experience using Couchsurfing. Relying on my gut them. So, there I was, in a new place having no plan. I
feeling, I zeroed-in on one person and it was a pleasant booked an Uber and showed the address to driver but it
surprise when it turned out good. But I still have to was difficult to locate the place in night. The driver asked
deal with one problem, because my passport was with around but there were not many people there at the
Government Relations Unit of AIT (GRU-AIT) and it was a middle of the night. Nonetheless, the police, the locals,
holiday so GRU was closed. It took me many frantic calls to the milk vans and the newspaper guys; all these people
figure out a way to get my passport but I didn’t deter and whom we asked, they coordinated and helped us find our
finally set off on my journey. destination, which was very pleasant surprise. I could not
thank them enough. Their cheerful faces and willingness
to help assured me that my trip in that foreign land was
Scary at first. But then it’s going to be awesome.
exhilarating. On the way to and at different places during my journey, I
met many new people, made new connections, saw new
places, tried new food and had great conversations that
would always remain memorable for me. I was blown

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