It was a business trip to Bandung (West Java), I think it was in June 2010 if I’m not mistaken. So, my boss allowed me to go there earlier and spend weekend there. How lucky I am. So instead of staying in a hotel alone and lonely having nothing to do, so I decided to do CouchSurfing.
So then I searched on the CS searching engine for a host, then one profile pretty much interest me. On the picture there was a guy holding a guitar surrounded by girls, hahahaha… so playboy-ish (I dunno the proper name). So, yes… Andhika Panduwinata! My first host, Ladies and Gentlements!!! I sent Couch Request (CR) to him and wuhuuuuu he accepted it J I was so happy.
I was very excited and could not wait to have my CS experience. I get him a present to say thank you in advance J and hope he likes it. So it was 9.30-ish at night when I hit Bandung airport and Pandu picked me up at the airport. How nice he was. He took me around the city and showed me around. Then we had dinner at the street.
He lives with his uncle. He has a room beside his uncle’s house where he has his cousins (2 girls) live there as well. He let me sleep in his cousin’s bedroom and the next day we had a trip to Tangkuban Perahu by motorbike. It was so… much fun. And how Pandu explained about every thing and gave me grand tour.
At night we had dinner with other CSers and planned to go for another trip where I met other cool CSers like David, Ilman who are both from Bandung, Victor from France and Basti from Germany and who are totally strangers. This experience would never happened to me if I did not join CouchSurfing.
And then finally, there were 8 of us (plus other CSers) went to another trip to Kawah Putih. During the trip, we played truth or dare and when it’s come to my turn, I chose “dare” so that they wanted me to go out the car and run around the car when it’s still moving where people staring at me and I think they said “what the fuck is this girl doing?” 
. But well, I didn’t really care. Hehehhee… It was fun.
Me and Couchsurfers at Kawah Putih, Bandung (Left to right: Pandu, Ilman, Anggie, Me, Alya, Basti, David, Victor)
Well anyways, my first experience of can be called “sleeping at stranger’s place” was fuckin’ awesome. Thanks to Pandu!
Pandu’s profile:http://www.couchsurfing.org/people/makananenak/
