Bali
by Matt Salleh

We flew out of Jakarta on Monday morning, our flight delayed by an
Indonesian Standard 45-minutes.. 'rubber time' they call it.

As we sailed over Java I saw at least 3 volcanoes... 1 had smoke
spewing from it's vent and we flew so close to another that we could see inside
the crater and into it's throat.... pretty cool!


I was extremely excited... and amazed.. I wanted to get closer!

Our first day in Bali we bussed to an organic rice padi and listened to
the farmers talk about sustainable agriculture, we also did a quadrat study
in a cocoa plantation... the undergrowth was just enough for the kids to
quantify....

Then a tour of a Balinese Hundu temple and a trek through a secondary
forest...


Today I had to bail out and go to the doctore after a 5-day stint of
stomach upset... it had gotten better, but then got worse... the doctor gave me
meds, vitamins and oral rehydration salts...

I caught an afternoon ride to Tanah Lot temple to meet up with the
students....

Other than that, we've tooled around town in semi-anthropological-style
interviewing locals about the effects of the Bali bombing on tourism
for their humanities report.... and swimming in the pool in between
lessons.


Tomorrow we head to the beach for a lesson on waves physics and beach
fun.....

It's been a great time.. Bali is fantastic and once you get off the
typical tourist strip, life here is authentic and unmolested....

I like to cool winds, mountains, rice fields and temples....