I Really Hate My Uterus

July 22

8:25am Jakarta time 

Well. Today is a long travel day. About 8 hours in a bus. Yey! 

We left about an hour ago. We just stopped off at the rice fields to watch harvesting. Literally the bus pulled to the side of the road. We got to see the machine they use to separate the grain from the plant. It was cool. They don't get paid with money though at this location. They get paid in grain. They get about 1 kilo per 10 kilos harvested. 

9:21am Jakarta time 

We just crossed into Central Java. There was a banner that said have a nice trip. And another one that said welcome to Central Java. 

2:18pm 

We stopped for lunch a while ago. It was a small place on the side of the road. Not much choice. Just Indonesian food. I am seriously so sick of Asian food. The smell of it sometimes even makes me feel sick. I don't want any more noodles or rice! I didn't end up eating. My mentrual cramps are pretty bad and I wasn't hungry. I drank water and ate a banana. A few hours later I ate some pumpkin bread. More a loaf of bread with pumpkin seeds so like whole grain bread, not sweet pumpkin bread.

We will arrive at some waterfalls in about an hour. It's 84 meters high. It'll be a nice stop before Melang. Tonight will pretty much just be dinner. Tomorrow morning Panji will take us on a short walking tour of Melang (a small colonial city) before we head to Mt Bromo. 

There is a week left on this trip. Then I'm off to Australia.

4:26pm 

Such bad cramps. And I didn't catch up on my blog but I did finish reading "The Language of Flowers"! Such a good book! Can't wait to start the next one :)

Panji cancelled the waterfall trip. It's impossible to see anything because it started raining. It's not hard but its very foggy. We stopped at a fruit market instead. I wanted to buy fruit but I bought a ton of bananas yesterday that I need to eat so I restrained myself. 

5:02pm 

We arrived in Malang. Finally!

There are people on the side of the street selling sweet drinks. Panji said that when it is first time to break the fast they will have a sweet drink first and eat dinner an hour later usually.

Also, there was a university building here. Compared to our universities, it was really small. Just one building. But compared to the other buildings around it it was huge. He said in Malang, most of the university students are from East Java whereas in Jakarta, most students are from West Java. 

We tried a fruit today called ----. It was interesting. Not my favorite fruit. It was similar to a kiwi in the sense that that was how you peeled it but then there was a small, flat, black seed inside. It is a light brown color and the flesh is more yellowish.

10:41pm Jakarta time 

Jeezus Christ do I miss birth control. My cramps are so bad. It's to the point I thought I had to shit a few times today from all the pressure and discomfort radiating from the cramps in my uterus. I just popped 1000mg of extra strength Tylenol. If that doesn't help, I don't know what will. I want to rip my uterus out of my body.

After we got to the hotel we had a bit before dinner. I barely moved. 

For dinner we went to an Indonesian place. I ordered a heaping plate of fruit which unfortunately didn't taste very ripe and sate ayam (chicken sate). Maybe I'll be able to eat rice again tomorrow. Well see. Had noodles yesterday so that's off rotation for a bit at least!

The place we ate had a pretty cool atmosphere. I had a good dinner conversation with Rob, Joanne, Jillienne, and Katie. We talked a lot about super heroes. And the marvel movies that are all coming out. So good!

Honestly, I really just want a huge kale salad, or a salad. And eggs for breakfast. Indonesia just doesn't seem to do that. Although I really like Asia and the culture here (for the most part...) I think I am very ready to go to Australia in a week. Woot! Westernization. Can't wait!!!!

At dinner, there were girls performing dances and at one point they started singing. I don't know what it is about music and especially singing but I just get entranced by it. I didn't even hear the conversations going on around me. And it's not like it was anything I hadn't heard. It was Adele. People were going up to sing and Joanne told me to go because I have such a beautiful voice (from the other night in Cianjur) but I still don't think I can handle singing in front of strangers. Maybe I'll have to tackle that on my next international trip.

Marion just pointed out to me that the bathmat in our room says "pussy" like instead of "welcome". What the hell haha. Also the shower was cool. It had like a stone floor so you couldn't really slip. Love it!

Really tired now... And hope my cramps are gone tomorrow!