Special trip to Surabaya

Keeping a blogg is taking alot of time and i have some cathing up to do.

I'm now in Ubud for the Ashtanga yoga retrait with Kino and Tim. They are so nice and giving a loving vibe to the hole group. Also the group is great.
I'm going to try here in Ubud to update my blogg every day. I hope i can remember everything, caus i saw in the last week so must and so must did happend. So i hope to write every day one adventure. So you guys can follow it to.

When we left Yogya we were for 3 days in Indonesia and i felt totaly fine, not very different from other countries i've bin. My thoughts about the trip so far was that i went with no expectations, so i'll felt totaly open for what every day would bring me.

First we went from Yogyakarta to the Bromo vulcano. We took a 10 hour trip with the bus to Probolinggo, a small village at the foot of the mountain.
At one of the stops we made true the whole trip, i met 2 sweet little girls. They were realy curious. And they could speak a little bit English. So we sitting and talking to eachother. It was so nice. I felt, for the first time i was in Indonesia, a deeper connection. Dont know exactly with what. But the feeling was very nice. We played around for half an hour and then my trip did go on to the next stop.

That night we got up at 4am to drive to the lookout spot for the sunrise to see. It was a very bumpy ride and we were all shaked up from it.
But at the and, the trip was worth it all. The vieuw was incredible.
After that we climbed the Bromo vulcane. It was so cool to see the still active vulcano. You could feel the energie around that place. Realy intens en alive feeling.
The surrounding of Bromo is amazing. Every were you look, people are working hard on the plantations, carry rice awy on there schoulders, selling the food.
The landscape is truely amazing.


After the Bromo trip we went to Surabaya. It was a three hour drive and we arrived at twelve.
Surabaya looked realy modern. Big, high buildings and very buzy. We had to be extra carefull, cause Surabaya is known for the rogues and villains. But luckaly nothing happend.
First day we checked the malls and got to bed early. Second time we switched from hotel. Caus the facilitisch were much better. We took it slow. And i was preparing the trip to Sukorejo. Caus the number was not right and there are more Sukorejo's in Indonesia, so it wasn't that easy to look the thing up.







Thirth day we went to Sukorejo, my birthplace. It was a 1,5 hour drive with the bus.
I met a realy sweet woman who was now helping with running the place and an old lady, who worked with the Pinati family for many years.
The owner of the childrens home and hospital is now the granddaugther of the couple Pinati. But she was not there. She is not running the place.
The women who worked there now, could not tell me any thing about administration of former adoptions. Granny and granpa Pinathi both past away, 5 and 3 years ago. The records of those days are so neglected, that there's nothing left from it.
It was ad to hear, but for me that was ok. I didn't came here to find my biological parents, i just wanted to look around and absorb the energy of the place. One of the workers, who was also a child of the home before, but is now working here, showed me a card. It was from 'Spoorloos"(a dutch program, who's specialized in finding lost family members from all over the world). The program had found her 2 years ago. Her sister from Holland went looking for her.

We could also see the hospital. But is was totaly rebuild. The old section was now a parkinglot. You could see the tiles still laying on the ground. Also the foundations what were before the walls, you could still see.
When we first went there, there were not alot of kids. Just one sleeping. But after we finished the tour, outside of the building there were standing 5 kids of the home.
They could speak a little bit English. They were very open and were laughing alot.
For one moment we were standing outside talking. And standing there like, and now what to do: Go home? Or staying? But then to do what?

And then Reni saw at the end of the street a restaurant, and she brought the idea to eat together with all the kids and one worker of the home. That was a great idea, caus now we could connect a little bit with each other!
We eat and laughed and had a great time. It was an wonderfull experiance. I liked the every one very much.
I had a good feeling about the first meeting with my birthplace. I made some pictures for you all te have a look.