Lene Fogelberg Blog

We are lucky to be here in Indonesia in these exciting times! Yesterday President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi took the oath of office, alongside his Vice President Jusuf Kalla. I just had to take a couple of pictures of the TV with my iPhone to show you. It was a very worthy and dignifi…

Hello friends, Yesterday was a very special day for our family as we got to meet Afghan Hazara refugees here in Jakarta and spend the day with them. I will tell you more about this, but first I just have to share with you what happened last night! I tweeted about my special meeting with the refuge…

Hello friends! I am overwhelmed by the amazing support after announcing my upcoming memoir The Cicadas, to be published by She Writes Press in 2015. People have been calling, e-mailing, texting, chatting, congratulating me on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and twitter. I even received various statu…

Hello friends! We’ve had a wonderful stay in Singapore. A totally relaxed weekend, enjoying the nature and the ocean air. We stayed at our favorite hotel on Sentosa island close to the ocean and went for long walks along Palawan beach. Nothing beats gazing out to the horizon while the waves are t…

Hello! I just have to show you this picture I took from the car window in an intersection here in Jakarta. Motorbikes with three, even four, people on them is an ordinary sight here — nothing strange about it. Fortunately the traffic is very slow, but still, I would feel much more comfortable if…

Hello friends! I feel much better now, did I tell you I had some sort of Asian virus that completely knocked me out? Well — it was interesting to see the inside of a Jakarta hospital emergency unit. The doctors and the nurses were amazing, I loved them all and after they gave me morphine for the…

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