Lene Fogelberg Blog

Hello dear friends! Long time no see! Sorry for that, we have been super busy! We have spent one intensive week in Sweden and it was wonderful to see friends and family again, which we haven’t seen for two years. Late one evening, when I returned back to the hotel, I had an e-mail in my inbox fr…

This has been an amazing, exciting, interesting year for me, full of learning opportunities and new adventures. Today I sat down and made a list of goals for the next year and while doing this, my thoughts wandered to this past year and I was filled with gratitude for all of you — who have chee…

Yep, it is most definitely rainy season here in Jakarta. The week between Christmas and New Year is called “the between-days” in Swedish and are usually spent hanging around the house in your pyjamas, eating left-over Christmas food and candy, going shopping, and visiting with your friends; goin…

Christmas already upon us! Here in Jakarta, where we don’t have the changing seasons to tell us Christmas is approaching, it always feels as if the holiday is standing behind a door and suddenly jumping out: ho ho ho! We are happy we found a Christmas tree and we have filled it with Balinese met…

Hello! We just came back from Singapore where we spent the week, since our youngest daughter (getting big now, already 13!) had dental surgery where all her four wisdom teeth came out. My poor baby girl! She was so brave and we tried to make the best of it, ordering a lot of ice cream from room …

Hello friends! We have been working for weeks to find a new book title for my memoir. As you know my publisher was not satisfied with the previous title The Cicadas, which didn’t do the job sufficiently of telling what kind of book my memoir is, or drawing the reader in. In addition there were t…

Hello friends! I decorated my office for the Holidays and I like it a lot. The rainy season in Jakarta is somewhat alike the Swedish winter, if you consider the dark and not the cold, because here of course it is still warm and humid. But when the dark clouds come rolling in in the afternoon it …

Hello! Just landed in Jakarta again, after a busy week in Singapore. In between meetings my husband and I managed to squeeze in a 15 minute walk along beautiful Singapore River. Lots of restaurants and cute colorful houses that make a nice variation in the cityscape, otherwise mostly high-rises….