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Visiting Ambon January 2018 - home sweet home

I married a Belgium man and we live in Belgium since end of 2013. After more less 5 years didn't visit my hometown, we decided to visit on January 2018. Me, my husband, and my 1 year old baby boy went through a very long trip from Europe to Ambon. We had one stop in Qatar, then we stayed 3 days in Jakarta before continue travelled to Ambon. It was one of the most exhausting trip i ever had in my entire life. The trip is quite long and wasn't that simple with our active baby boy. I was longing to see all my family and introduce our baby to people that i love and i know there. I was imagining the beautiful beaches, all the good memories about this place, and want to have good experience with my little family.  We arrived in a hot weather Ambon. The airport is quite nice, there are some good decorations along the interior of the airport. Some orchids ornament made the airport feel more fresh. Once we were finished with our luggage, we were welcomed by several taxi driver ou...
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My childhood as Ambonese

I was born in 1984 in Ambon, and grew up there. For little me at that time, Ambon is a big city. Before i was teenager i almost never go anywhere in the city without one of my parents because i was too scared to get lost. I was around 13 year old when i was brave enough to take the public transport by my own. I had no choice at that time because the school is no longer walking distance from home, but by public transport. Both of my parents are Ambonese. They got married when they were very young. My mom was born in 1965 while my father 1963, they got married 2 years before i was born so you can figure it out how young my parents were when they married and got the first baby - me (little hint: my mom is only 18 years older than me).  My young parents never have any fix job. With their unfinished school, they can't really got any office work like other parents do. They sold clothes (door to door), my father sometimes helped people to construct the house to win some money, th...
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