Today marks the day that Orientation is over and now I'm off to move into my new Kos or in English, my boarding house! It was a bit of an ordeal to find a boarding house as right now, is the beginning of the first semester of university here in Jogyakarta, Indonesia. The Kos I found, after hunting many kos's that were already full, had super strict curfews or the perils of shared bathrooms with 20 other people, was a bright yellow building! It seems to have some nice girls in it as here in Jogya, a lot of the boarding houses are either Kos Putri (girls) or Kos Putra (boys).
So my first out of home experience has me living in a bedroom with a bed, a cupboard and a little desk and my own ensuite. Little sad that I don't have a mandi (a basin that you pour water over yourself) but rather a Western shower. I suppose I can replicate my own mandi with using buckets come shower time haha!
I'm pretty excited to start going shopping for things to furnish my room with and meeting the other girls who live there and buying a bicycle! I'm about 10-15minutes away from my uni by bicycle so would be say, 20-30 minute walk, so at least I know I have one source of exercise here!
So only fear right now is being alienated in my boarding house or my fear of riding on the roads haha! Uni starts the 23rd August so still time to chill out and get to know the area!
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