In Reply to: me too posted by jessejoojar on Wednesday, 8. February 2006 at 08:30 Bali Time:
hey girls.....in short.
My four months was spent sitting on the beach, meeting hundreds of people not only from Bali and Indonesia but from all over the world. I also got to spend a lot of time with my old friends from bali which is always so grouse after having not seen them for a while. I did a lot of going out at night.....I spent a fair few nights watching my friends band (phoenix project) and admittedly also spent a fair few nights at the bounty ship...You just can't go past the happy hour there.
I spent a week in Thailand with 'sponge' which was an experience haha! It was just too hard not to compare it to Bali. And with bad luck on our sides after maybe a day we knew our month in Thailand would be a very short one. So back to our beloved Bali it was.
I spent a lot of my time travelling around Bali. The west....up to Negara for the bull races. All through central Bali and also the North coast. My ‘boyfriend' is from north Bali and so I spent several weeks all up in his village.
His village is amazing. I was the only tourist, white, English speaking person there and I got my small taste of what it would be like to be famous. I fell in love with the village but mainly the children. The kids would come swimming with me on the beach most afternoons and sometimes there would be about 50 or 60 of them. Then a lot of them would come back to the house with me and just stare, giggle and try to practice their English. I also went to my first ceremony in his village and that was pretty special too.
I feel like I know Bali and their culture pretty well now. I know a lot about their religion, lifestyles and unfortunately my eyes were also opened up to the not so bright side of Bali particularly Kuta and the main tourist areas. I know more about the difference of having a holiday in Bali and actually living in it. Not completely but I was on the way J
Anyway.....that may be all for now.....but I'm always happy to talk about Bali so if you have any questions or just want a chat.....like I said. Feel free to email me. (KirstyRee@hotmail.com)