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I am going to bookmark your profile because your hobbies/interests are inspiring :-) and I can get plenty of great ideas reading through it.

Estonian is the most beautiful language in the world. Thumbs up.

Woa it's a honor to be seen by you. Such a great profile. Semoga berhasil di Estonia!

Hey Tom! I deleted my other account, so you can just write to me here. I hope you had a great holiday season and happy new year by the way!

Love,
Izzy

I fell in love with the place so much that I'm thinking of going back again next year. I think though that aside from the places you visit, the activities you have done, the people you meet, I think it's discovering a part of yourself and expanding your horizons that make the journey worthwhile.

Anyway, since it will be Christmas in a couple of weeks, what are your plans for the holidays? Will you be spending it with friends instead (since of course your family is miles away)? Until then I wish you great adventures ahead!

Love,

Izzy

and again it makes us think of how easy we can be swiped off from the face of the earth with just a single and powerful natural disaster. When I did my outreach a year ago what struck me the most was the look on their faces- not of sadness and anger but just complete and utter confusion and blankness, unable to do anything, helpless, and sometimes I hear them wondering why they were still alive while their loved ones have not survived. But on a lighter note let us not forget to credit them for their resilience and their strength, such as the popcorn seller who have lost everything yet still continues to sustain himself and go on living despite having a choice to end his life.

That magical, unexplainable feeling you had watching all the lights and stunning view of the Indonesian cities was the same feeling I got when I went to Hong Kong. My trip was by far the most amazing thing I have done in my life, and what made it more liberating was that I proved to myself and all the people out there who were skeptical that I can make it on my own. It was crazy at first as I was held by the immigration at HK for almost an hour, with fears that I might get deported. Aside from that I got lost a lot of times in train stations, being a complete stranger to trains. But I stayed at a hostel that was situated at the 9th floor of a building and offered me a stunning view of the whole city from the rooftop. Anyway I wrote detailed accounts of my trip in the airmail I sent you just yesterday, so I will just leave it at this. I shared the hostel with other backpackers who were mostly Europeans so that made me feel less alone, especially when we'd start talking about the most bizarre and intellectually stimulating topics after midnight over beers and barbecue. All in all Hong Kong is an exciting country which brings together influences of the east and the west, staying true to its being "Asia's World City." I also went to Macau which was also a great experience. I fell in love with t

Hello Tom!

Okay to be honest I was a little worried that you went incognito for almost a month so I'm more than happy to hear from you again. It's great to hear that you have had an amazing couple of weeks, discovering and embarking on many trips and finally letting the Indonesian lifestyle sink in. I get the feeling that you are now an adopted son of Indonesia haha. And even great to hear that you are now in a more cheerful and optimistic state compared to the last situation you were in.

I agree that with the easy access of information circulating throughout many available outlets, sometimes it's not necessary to do fieldwork and have a first-hand account of your report. Like for example for my freelance work I am usually tasked to write about certain topics that are very technical and I can just google everything about it and suddenly I have all the information I need in my computer screen without even doing experiments or such. You're definitely one lucky guy to be given that kind of assignment, and I'm sure you find it very rewarding as it also gives you the opportunity to let out your inner wanderer.

It's actually the first time I have heard of the tragic tsunami that hit Banda Aceh back in 2004, and reading about it was so heartbreaking indeed with over hundreds of thousands of casualties. When Haiyan struck us a year ago I have seen how much destruction and how much deaths the monster typhoon had caused the country, and the number of casualties was even barely 5% of that in Banda Aceh. I just can't imagine the tragedy they had gone through during that time, probably far more greater and intense than the plight we had gone through, with all their families gone and with nothing, absolutely nothing, in their hands. The saddest thing is that disasters like these serve as scars that people will carry for the rest of their lives, and again it makes us think of how easy we can be swiped off from the face of the earth with just a single and powerful natura