It’ll almost be 9 months since Alex and I have moved to New Jersey. Kaum zu glauben!

It’s really hard to summarize all that I’ve seen, and all that’s happened. So, I thought I would go clinical and just use numbers. So here some random stats from our days in New Jersey, broken down by category:

Travel and movement

• No. of days in the US: 269
• No. of days with hikes and/or long walks: 67
• No. of states visited: 8 (Arizona, California, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Utah)
• No. of steps walked: 1,784,737
• Average steps per day: 6635

Friends and family

• No. of days spent with either sisters and/or mom:  39 (the most in any year since 2005)
• No. of aunts, uncles, cousins and second cousins seen: 20(the most in any year since I can’t remember)
• No. of visitors from overseas: 4
• No. of times I met Naomi: 2 (that last time we saw each other more than once a year was in 1991)

Arts Indonesia

• No. of new people met through Gamelan Dharma Swara: 27
• No. of new pieces learned: 6
• No. of performances I took part in: 6
• No. of performances I watched: 2
• No. of cities performed in: 3

Productivity

• No. of courses taken: 4
• No. of times observing a UN panel discussion: 1
• No. of new babies visited: 1
• No. of Instagram posts: 75
• No. of WordPress Postcard posts: 14, including this one
• No. of new websites created: 1
• No. of jobs looked at: hundreds
• No. of job applications sent: 10
• No. of hours spent volunteering: 3.75

Well, that’s all for now. Soon, a post – with a bit more sentiment – about the German, socialist side of Pinky.

Nighty night!