Gili Air, indonesia pictures

this is our hotel room in that little island we stayed at called Gili  air

             

 

 

i went snorkeling every day and i found a hermit crab

 

 

 

 

this is me doing math

 

 

 

 

 

in one of the places i stayed at i learned to crocette a hat

 

 

 

 

me snorkeling

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snorkelling

Today we went snorkelling finally and I saw lots of different fish. most often I saw angel fish. I saw 250 angel fish and 10 sea turtles. it was lots of fun. One time I dove down to a sea anemone and the clown fish that lived there was really  big. almost 2 inches long. it swam right up to me and was really  close to my face. then I had to go up for air.  I also saw a 100 pound parrot fish. They are really big. There were  20 of them. There  are lots of different kinds of parrot fish too. I know it sounds funny,  but Ive got a head and sinus cold, And we don't even have air conditioning.  it's always 26-33 c here.  not to complain but boy is it hot. :) I got sun burnt to day on my back. it hurts.  We are back at our  hotel on the same island.  we are leaving for Cambodia tomorrow at 10:00  am.  But first we have to go to Thailand   and take a plane to Cambodia, then we go back to Thailand.   then we go home. 1 more month till I come home :) I'm really missing the food at home.  it's so different here and no good pizza!!!!!!!!!!! :( well I miss you all. bye!

gili air, indoneasia

today we had to cancel our snorkeling trip for the third time. it sucks. it is all cloudy and cold, which is kind of nice because it is always so hot
here. its always 25-33 degrees Celsius. so we are going tomorrow unless it is the same as today.we haven't done any thing for 3 days which is unusual
for us because we are always on the go when we are traveling. its kind of nice, this trip has bean like this the  whole time. we spent 2 weeks in the same spot
in new Zealand. on my last trip the longest we stayed in one spot was 3-5 days then we were off never to go there again.

I'm on my second book now. its called flipped and I'm half way threw in 2-3 days. its a good book you should read it some time. my favorite carrictor is named Julie. she sounds like she would be a lot of fun if she was really real.

i am also almost finished the hat that i am crocheting.

                                            fresh orange juice in the morning on the beach!

some of the things i learn are counting money from different countries. they have the indonesian rupiel here. $5 = 50,000.00 R

growing rice

In Bali they grow rice in rice terraces  that look like steps going up and down the hills. i know a little bit of how they grow the rice.
First thay plant the rice randomly by hand and then when it has sprouted they transplant it by hand into rows. When their other harvest is finished and they have room in the fields they can plant it where they would like. Then when it is planted they have to go through a series of flooding and draining so the rice will grow.
Sometimes they really flood it so that it is totally under water.Later when the rice is a bit bigger they just let the water trickle over and just the bottoms are under water.
When it starts to grow the rice looks like it is wheat. When it is ready to harvest they let all the water drain off and let it dry. Then they chop off the top and let the straw dry in the ground. When the hay is done drying they cut it down and use it.The rice is taken and dried till the shells of the rice are loose. They then put it in a big bowl and beat the rice till the shells of the rice come off. Once the rice is off the shell they use a fan to blow all the husks away so the rice is left.
I eat rice almost every day just like the Asian people here. My favorite way is the local way called Nasi Goreng which is fried rice with vegetables and chicken.It is really good

outside our homestay in Ubud Bali

 

 

 

                                                                         rice terraces

 

                            The homestay owners we stayed with in Ubud Bali

 

we are in Bali now and it is very different from NZ because there is a language barrier and the culcher is very different from ours unlike NZ there culcher is very much
the same. for instance you use your right hand for everything. if you use your left it is ofensive because it is your dirty hand. Also it never snows hereat all. its also really hot all
year round. Instead of planting corn or grain they plant rice. instead of seeing fields you see rice patties. layers and layers of rice patties when I say layeres I mean
terraces or steps up and down the hills and when the rice is ready to be harvested it looks like wheat. When they grow it they have to go threw stages of flooding and blocking
of the irrigation ditches so it will grow. there clothing is different to compared to our. they where modest clothing and they wear sarongs. A sarong it a peice of materiel and
you put it on so it looks like a skirt.

 

i just learnt to fold fish in a banana leaf to be steamed at our cooking class

                          I'm roasting coffee beans over a fire.

     This is a picture from our balcony. this is what the rice tarraces look like.

 

  we have been very busy. a few days ago we went on a tour of ubud.Ubud is the town near where we are staying. we looked at temples and went to a coffee plantation
and the most expensive type of coffee was made from lewak dropping's. we didn't try any of that kind of coffee.

 

                                 we also had a cooking class. well we more like helped cook.

          Here is me walking toward the place we are staying at in the country.

yesterday we went to monkey forest. one of them started hissing and running at me. it was scary. I think that it did that a lot because its front
teeth were taken out. the same thing happened to my mom. But the monkey was on a ledge and colton said just push it off and it will learn its lesson. he he. He was just kidding.

 

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 All in all i still think are mean because when i was 6 a monkey bit me.

 

 

 also yesterday mom and dad had a 4 hour massage and me and colton had to stay at our house.
We watched a move oh i mean do homework hee hee. We also had to make our own lunch. Today we just going to relax and do laundry go to the pool. bye 

                                 and write in my blog and maybe do math

 

                                                        here are some rice tarraces

                                        here is our whole family

Farm life

  March 10

       Today we went to go feed the dear and it was fun because we saw all the different kind of dear that thay have. Reds, fallow, rusa, elk and the mix of red and elk they are much bigger then the ordinary red. And I saw 8 big trophy head. They are really amazing animals. And we also feed all the cows. And we saw a dead red faun. And they have to do this thing called velveting which is taking off the antlers and they sell them. And they leave on a very  little bit of the antler and when they shed their antler the little bit of the rest  pops off and that little thing is called a button. You can make all sorts of things with them you can make a belt buckle and you can engrave stuff in it to.  

Broken arm

March 6
   A flew days ago  my mom  broke her arm going over a cow fence. She broke her arm in 4 different spots. She has to get plates and bolts  in her arm. And she might have to get a few bolts that stick out of  her skin. And she has to get surgery, She was put  under and they  realized that the X-ray machine  is broken and they could not perform the surgery and they  had to wake her up and put another cast on and send her back home.