Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
It's a beautiful Life
Well after these two weeks of grounding, healing (yes we're finally better!) and absorbing Ubud is starting to feel like home. :)
Yesterday me and ike went on a journey, trying to get to Kuta by Mo-ped and decided... weeelll our lives are more important than getting the computer fixed at this moment! Peopel are totally insane drivers here. They do have their own rthym, which is everyone just drive wherever you want, on either side of the road and make three or four lane roads whenever you want.... buut i think it's going to take a little adjusting before we can sink into that groove! We got to the major freeway which would lead us to the tourist capital of Indonesia and just turned around and went home :P
Now back in little back country Ubud we've become hardened road warriors!
Other than driving escapades we went to the monkey temple forest which was built in the mid 14th century, and i felt my body singing, humming in tune with the green, alive vibration of every tree, rock and statue of the place. The entropy is so high here that soon enough even hard cement gets reclaimed back into the soft earth. The moss was my favorite part (besides the silly monkeys), covering giant iguana statues, that out of their mouths sprung fresh drinkable spring water!
Me and isaac both are feeling the magic of beautiful Bali! I still feel occasional displacement and sit wondering about the mutli faceted reasons i travel, hoping their for the best.. but overall I think i'm letting myself become a part of this place. Learning the language is really helpful to know a place! Everything comes from the heart.. some of my favorites so far are Hati Hati (from my heart to yours, be careful) and Sudah Kawin? for are you married, but traslated it means aren't you married yet? haha
Oh and I go into school sort out my lesson plans tomorrow! eeeee! so excited! I've heard so much good feedback about the school and they have been so kind to me already. I'm both nervous and happy to find my place and start learning, sharing, giving and laughing. Then I'll get off isaacs case too about working so much and wanting him to adventure with me haha.
oh and I cut off some dreadlocks! I was gonna keep it a secret but then realized no one would see me for so long haha. Mmm its so nice to feel the wind on the sides of my head and touch my head again! Still kept all my big natty and favorite ones though.
Yesterday me and ike went on a journey, trying to get to Kuta by Mo-ped and decided... weeelll our lives are more important than getting the computer fixed at this moment! Peopel are totally insane drivers here. They do have their own rthym, which is everyone just drive wherever you want, on either side of the road and make three or four lane roads whenever you want.... buut i think it's going to take a little adjusting before we can sink into that groove! We got to the major freeway which would lead us to the tourist capital of Indonesia and just turned around and went home :P
Now back in little back country Ubud we've become hardened road warriors!
Other than driving escapades we went to the monkey temple forest which was built in the mid 14th century, and i felt my body singing, humming in tune with the green, alive vibration of every tree, rock and statue of the place. The entropy is so high here that soon enough even hard cement gets reclaimed back into the soft earth. The moss was my favorite part (besides the silly monkeys), covering giant iguana statues, that out of their mouths sprung fresh drinkable spring water!
Me and isaac both are feeling the magic of beautiful Bali! I still feel occasional displacement and sit wondering about the mutli faceted reasons i travel, hoping their for the best.. but overall I think i'm letting myself become a part of this place. Learning the language is really helpful to know a place! Everything comes from the heart.. some of my favorites so far are Hati Hati (from my heart to yours, be careful) and Sudah Kawin? for are you married, but traslated it means aren't you married yet? haha
Oh and I go into school sort out my lesson plans tomorrow! eeeee! so excited! I've heard so much good feedback about the school and they have been so kind to me already. I'm both nervous and happy to find my place and start learning, sharing, giving and laughing. Then I'll get off isaacs case too about working so much and wanting him to adventure with me haha.
oh and I cut off some dreadlocks! I was gonna keep it a secret but then realized no one would see me for so long haha. Mmm its so nice to feel the wind on the sides of my head and touch my head again! Still kept all my big natty and favorite ones though.
Love love love, I'll write again when school is underway and how my mission here is going, and for now... MONKEYS!!! :D
Friday, February 11, 2011
Our place in bali!
I just wrote such a long post, then my computer died! So i'll just tell a brief little story now, and in fill in the rest in a bit, after I'm feeling better from this lingering cold.
It took two days of flying, driving, and sleeping in Narita to make it to Jakarta. We had a confusing dinner conversation and ended up with sliced tomatoes with salt.... and the breakfast buffet was a bit confusing as well.. what is that anyway? But we were off and on the plane soon enough.
No indonesian airline would accept foreign credit cards online, so we ended up just having to muddle our way through once we got there! Which was quite a test, being sick and hot and hustling from terminal to terminal trying to find a flight, with a good ten locals crowded around us lost looking westerners trying to sell us crumpled up tickets for hundreds of dollars with other peoples names on them! We finally boarded the biggest plane I've ever been on, a double decker! then flew off to denpasar with sighs of relief. All the lights of Jakarta winked at us as we flew overhead, both welcoming us and saying you have a lot to learn.. into an unknown night.
And now we're here, in beeaauteeful bali.. where huuge scultpures are the norm, and temples and statues are everywhere, all wrapped in checkered cloth, to keep away bad spirits, and keep them warm.
We had a bit of a tumultuous first stay, as Isaacs just recovering and I'm pretty sick, so we've been laying low, enjoying our home and the thick, rich, spicy/woody air, and the view of forests and rice paddys all around.
We got a moped yesterday!! eee, excited! isaac's just driven it yet, but I'll learn too so I can get to and from my school when I start my practicum in the next week or so. I think we're gonna practice in little sessions first though because.. well let me give you a picture of the roads here: You drive on the left, no one signals, you just wave your hand the direction you want to go, theres motorbikes zipping around you, everyones beeping to warn you they're coming, and theres the few surprise chickens and dogs just to spice things up! Yep, craazy!
But we're lucky the roads are fairly quiet here, so we'll get good practice before zipping off on adventures.
I think tomorrow we're going to visit the monkey king temple, and the monkey forest, but we'll see if I'm feeling up for it!
All in all its beautiful here, in a multi faceted yet to be discovered way. And all the people I've met have been so gracious, they have eased some of my apprehensions about being a westerner in their lands. I feel fidgety to start teaching, as I know this will make me feel more at peace with my journey here. Something I've been thinking of lately and struggling with in a way is guilt. I know guilt is not a useful sentiment, something to pass through, and not to be acted upon. But it's a hard mechanism to let go of though.. when it serves any kind of self doubt or fear.. but exchanging love, knowledge and spirit should never be motivated by this feeling, so I pray for myself the strength to only act for the eternal flow of balanced reciprocity and love. I pray for the people here, the children and whole system of the world to find their towards the spiralling light!
Love you all. Heres some pictures I took of our home here, and whoooaa! we weren't expecting this! Our friend, whos been coming here for years was charged with finding us all a place (they are all amazing by the way :) and he fell sick, so last minute had to grab a place and that meant finding one thats a bit pricey... but gorgeous! We're moving out next month into a more modest place, but for now we'll just have to endure it :)
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