just got off the plane!
I haven’t really had time or motivation to write the past two or three days, but I’ll try to about sum it up. We landed in Kuala Lumpur Malaysia and stayed there for a day and a half resting from our daylong flight, and looking around the city. I was dismayed when I saw all I was looking at was a collection of shopping malls; there were at least five malls all a walking distance from were we were staying. Mom was disgusted. I didn’t exactly fall in love with the place.
Anyway, after that we got on a quick 3hr flight to Bali, Indonesia where our friend Rick, who stays in Bali half the year, had already booked a bungalow for us (only $7.50 including breakfast!). The second I entered the room I was asleep. In the morning I woke up at about 7, stayed in bed for maybe an hour then finally got up and went outside. The front lawn took my breath away! In front of me behind the coconut tree was a stretch of rice paddies, lining them on either side was a variety of tropical trees, and living in the rice paddies a family of ducks which I later learned are good for the paddies and aren’t there purely for show. That day we (me and mom) hitched a ride to Ubud (the central town in Bali) on Rick’s motorcycle. He dropped us in the center of town on “monkey forest road” (which actually leads to a forest in which the main inhabitants are monkeys), recommended a few restaurants, then left to go on a few errands. We then went up the street, got a meal (only $2.50!), walked a little further up the street, ate some ice cream, and left. When we got to our bungalow ‘the grownups’ got dressed up to go to Trivia (every Friday Fly Café hosts a trivia contest, where each table is it’s own team, and the prize is a bottle of beer, and a glass of wine for everyone at the winning table.).
When we arrived at Fly Café we were introduced to Rick’s ex-pat friends (the best selling album “American Idiot” described them perfectly) and sat down in between mom and Rick. Then came the Trivia questions… I was disappointed when I only got one point for our table, especially since one of the questions had to do with the Simpsons which I watch every chance I get (though I don’t have cable so that isn’t very often). The question I did get was one no other table got though, the question was “What comprises 10% of the Komodo dragons main food supply,” and the answer was “younger Komodo dragons.” What surprised me was I had just done an independent assignment on the subject in school.
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