So i'm sitting in my office and it occurs to me this is my last day.  And now i'm trying so hard not to cry, its only 8:30 in the morning after all.  But its my last friday in Jakarta....

Therefore- WHAT I WILL MISS ABOUT JAKARTA

SCHOOL- I know we've been waiting our whole lives to graduate but i want so badly to go back to it, i want to fight with my mom about money again, now if i don't have the money i don't get it, i want to roll out of bed and into that skool that can be so damn humid coz our hang out places are freaking huts

PARTYING- I am REALLY REALLY going to miss knowing that i can go ANYWHERE in this country and i can buy alcohol or cigarettes with no problem at all.  None, i'm going to miss that every nite is party nite in Jakarta, you can go out on a sunday, monday or friday and the clubs will be packed.  I'll miss Weds. being ladies nite so we get in for free.

CORRUPTION- I'll actually miss the corruption and knowing that I can actually get away with anything because you can always pay them off.

DRIVERS- I am SO going to miss getting wasted to the point i can't walk and knowing that my driver will get me home safe.  If i do that in the states i gotta drive myself home....

MAIDS- I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO MAKE UP A BED, WASH THE DISHES CORRECTLY, CLEAN A FREAKING HOUSE, basically i'm helpless.  I love leaving piles of clothes on my floor in the morning coz i was trying to pick an outfit and coming home and they're all back where they belong, the bed is made up.  I miss sitting on the couch yelling for the maid and telling her i want breakfast and not having to move at all to get it.  I know i'm a spoiled brat but that's how i grew up man.

TRAFFIC- I love long car rides sumtimes, and in Jakarta i get them everyday, i love how there's only meant to be 2 lanes but we turn it into 6 lanes, i love how you can be 5 minutes away from sumwhere and it'll take you 45 min. more to actually get there.

PEOPLE- Oh god i'm going to miss everyone here, These people have been great, i've never been so attached to a place.  I'm going to remember everyone here forever. 

I've got to go start a whole new life without maids, drivers or constant partying - well for awhile at least, i mean come on, i will be partying.  Despite getting evacuated twice and almost evacuated again twice i love this place i'll miss looking over my shoulder everywhere i go.

You know i was looking at every1 else's most recent posts and noticed a common theme, summer and graduating and college.  So i'll talk about that too, even tho there is sumthing else i REALLY REALLY want to talk about but i can't because i can't tell any1 because it could have serious reprucussions for the other party involved so i sure as hell can't be posting it on the internet.  But yeah so my summer....

well I was supposed to leave Indonesia June 3rd.  Hi! It's June sumthing or another, i think it's the 24th and i'm still here, because 2 days b4 i graduated i found out we can't get the tenants out of our house in VA because our dumbass property manager extended the lease without consulting my mother, and if y'all will recall this is the house I'M SUPPOSED TO BE MOVING INTO.  So we delayed our departure to the 6th of July, i promptly made a stupid desicion and am now working at the American Embassy, its good and all coz i get work experience, sumthing of which i have none, as is common with most of us Third Culture Kids, but the fact that skool is out and i'm getting up at 6:30 in the morning pisses  me off. Majorly.  Anywayz so that's what i'm doing.  I managed to sprain my ankle on sunday.  I've got this way ugly bruise on my foot too, its so gross.  Anywayz when we leave here on the 6th we're going to TExas as usual for like a week and a half, visit the family, then off to VA for a month so i can get settled in, drive...blah blah blah.  And as more and more of my friends leave for the summer or leave for good i'm getting sadder and sadder coz soon i have to say goodbye to everyone, and i really don't want to.  All i keep thinking is what the hell am i supposed to do without Tamir?  I mean seriously now, I'll probably die.  I'm going to miss Jkt so much. 

you know over this past year i've formed a very good friendship with Shane, a very unexpected friendship too.  Why unexpected you may ask?  Because he's 32.  I first knew him as the guy whose kid i was watching because he wouldn't let any1 but an american watch his kid.  I was happy that i was making sum money for being american but it also kinda made him seem like an ass.  And since then he's become one of my best friends, i tell him everything, he's pretty much up on the same level as Tamir.  Why do i bring this up?  Because this past year i've also spent more time with my mom and in effect i've made friends with a bunch of her friends, it used to be wierd with all the old ppl and then the teenager, but now i'm cool with them, my mom and i are invited to things 2gether, when she doesn't want to go i go anywayz becoz i am perfectly comfortable with them, plus they buy me beer.  Which brings me 2 friday nite...they were meeting up sumwhere and my mom did not want to go and i did so i ventured out by myself and they were expecting my mom wouldn't want to come and had promised to buy me my 1st glass of beer, i ended up paying nuthing that nite.  And getting a tad bit drunk while i was at it.  I wasn't like trashed but i was sumwhere in btwn tipsy and drunk.  It was fun and even funnier was shane was driving me hme and he was a bit intoxicated.  and by this time we're positive there are plenty of indonesian ppl around jakarta that think we're having sum full blown affair, he's always picking me up at like 6 and bringing me back around 10 occasionally 2am, its all explainable tho becoz like i'll be out with my mom and want to come home earlier so he'll bring me home but its like 1am and i guess for a teenager to be out with a married man at that time is a bit questionable bu ti'm all like if its not true it don't bother me.  So anywayz yeah so my mom's friends got me a bit happy friday and then saturday i was supposed to take one of my friends out who is a marine she was going to bring another marine along but at like 4pm she calls and says she just found out she's getting promoted and invited me and any1 I wanted to bring to a small party for her at the marine house, so i persuaded maria to join me and we went and got trashed and payed for nuthing.  I was so drunk, i was dancing with 2 of the marines, not grinding or anything but pretty close, i secretly puked came back and was now stumbling, i would be standing and start to lean and they kept having to balance me, we were waiting outside for the car and it was taking so long i just lay down right there outside the hotel, that didn't last long coz of course one of the maries was like uh no, then one of my contacts fell out for no reason, i decided i didn't need it anymore and threw it on the floor and then removed my other contact too.  Maria and i decided to take a cab home and i puked.  Now maria was saying you just proved to all those marines why teenagers shouldn't drink, and i was like no no they've heard my stories, and she was like okay and you just proved that they're all true.  I don't know if i should be embarassed or not, i mean every1 loses control every once in awhile, this i know but i'm thinking it might have been a bad first impression for sum of them i had met just that night and the other 2 that had only met me the week b4...should i be embarassed? coz i usually dont' care.

and since ppl have asked, no the tounge piercing didn't hurt that much, its kinda depressing not being able to eat for that day tho.  and yeah i'm at work (american embassy) should go.

Wow its been awhile, lets see i've graduated, almost hooked up with my sister's ex boyfriend and gotten my tounge pierced and this time its not coming out, my mom knows about it and knows she can't do nuthing about it, and i've made like 500 dollars so far in graduation money

ANd i dunno what's going on i think sum1 is getting into my shit coz my font changed here, i didn't change it, a new friend was added to my friendster that i didn't add....yada yada yada