rencanaku

so this weekend will be a big one...

first and foremost - AMBER IS COMING!
she'll be staying with me for a month...
yes, yes, i am pretty excited about that.
i mean, it's not every day a girl's best friend comes to visit her halfway around the world!

the tricky part is getting her here.
the jakarta airport could easily be compared to a traveler's hell.
i took pity on amber, and decided to meet her there, as opposed to forcing her to navigate the impossible airport in order for her to get a connecting flight to somewhere closer to me.

so here's what i have to do.
friday, i have to pack up my hiking backpack and walk about a km to the main road.
there, i'll have to stop a bus (hopefully the right one) and take it an hour north.
i need to have them stop at the town circle there, which is where i have the highest chance of finding a taxi in that city.
the taxi will take me to the airport, where i'll fly an hour to jakarta.
once in jakarta, i have to take the airport bus to the end of the line.
after that, i have to walk to another bus station and take that one to a certain mall.
when i am safely in the mall, i am to sms a student from our school who will meet me and lead me to her house, where i'll be staying.
she is korean. her family is korean. she speaks english. her family does not.
her family graciously offered to drive me to the airport the next day to meet amber.
i have given amber VERY explicit instructions on how to get her visa, get through immigration, where to get her luggage, what to do at customs, and where i will be waiting for her.
once i'm with her, we're gonna wait about an hour for yohanes to fly in.
when the three of us are together, we will rent a car to take us to another town where we'll spend 2 nights.
when our time there is up, we'll get on the night train to bring us back to semarang where, hopefully, a car will be waiting to drive us home.

whew. got all that?
i'm still not sure that i do.

i would ask that you please pray for safety and smoothness in all things.
with as many of us are traveling using as many different modes of transportation as we are, there is SO much opportunity for things to go wrong - big and small.
pray that we would be in His hands every step (and every flight and every bus ride and every train ride and every car ride) of the way : )