1 Internship, 2 Countries

The last three months passed so quickly and out of a sudden my internship in Singapore is already over. It has been an amazing time and I could only write about a couple of things that have happened on this blog. During my last week I was busy with arranging my departure. On Thursday I had a farewell dinner with some colleagues at a Chinese dumpling restaurant. The place was so crowded that we had to wait for about 1 hour until we got a table, but it was definitely worth it. If you ever get the chance to try a fried banana-prawn dumpling, do it!

On Friday morning I had to say goodbye to the rest of the team. During my time at Bosch I met lot's of great people so it was really sad to leave. As my internship in Singapore was supposed to be for 6 months, but I only got a visa for 3 months my awesome boss suggested that I spend the second 3 months at the Jakarta office. Of course, I gladly accepted. So I left clean and organized Singapore for crazy and chaotic Jakarta on Saturday evening.

When I arrived at Soekarno-Hatta airport at about 11pm I hadn't planned anything and so I decided against going into town to find a hostel. As I was already quite tired the benches in front of Terminal 3 just looked to appealing, so I spent a short night the airport and took one of the first buses (Damri, 25,000rupiah/2 Euros) downtown. From there I got a taxi to my office where I wanted to view a room. However, after a small chat my taxi driver convinced me that the place I wanted to see was too far away from my workplace to walk there, so I asked him to just drop me at the office. There I asked some locals if they knew about any available rooms in the neighbourhood. After visiting 3 different kos with them I finally found a place to stay. The room has aircon, free wifi, bathroom, small kitchen, tv, free laundry service and cost me 2million rupiah (~170 Euros) per month. But the best thing about it is that I only walk 5 minutes to work in the morning :)