 | Week 2 in Jakarta
2008-04-14, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: SEA1 | | We have just finished our second week in the awesome city of Jakarta. This week we worked in a different slum teaching English to children at kindergarten age as well as to teenagers. When we were not... |
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| Week 1
2008-04-05, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: sea1 | | We arrived in Jakarta last Saturday night and were straight away hit with the hot, humid air of the city. After sorting out bags and money etc. we made our way to where we are staying. We got a huge s... |
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 | Our So Called Honeymoon in Kampung Sampireun
2007-07-29, garut, Indonesia. By: tichan | | Well, first of all - I think it should be called honeydays cause it was only 3 days 2 night. Nevertheless, the vacation was great! Initially we didn't plan to go anywhere, but at last minute we decide... |
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 | Being a tourist in Jakarta
2008-03-01, Jakarta, Indonesia. By: alfredo | | After 8 days in Bali and the Gili Islands, 8 days of sun, beaches, scuba diving, temples, monkeys, bintang, snorkelling, etc., and during those days I met fellow travellers from all over the world, it... |
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 | Bugs in the machine
2008-02-25, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | In Bali there are ants smaller than a grain of salt. I have a brand new digital camera that I brought to Bali. I was looking at my photos of the jewelry that I had taken and noticed one of these mic... |
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 | Happy Birthday Mom
2008-02-24, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | As I sit here in Bali it is already my last week before I go home… I am thinking about my mom and the fact that I am missing her birthday. I don’t get lonely, but I tend to feel disconnected. Every... |
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 | Yikes! .... shit, shit, shit, .... whew!
2008-02-22, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | After a meal and meeting at Barandi restaurant with my laptop I came home to drop off my computer. I don’t like to drive with it any further than necessary because of the risks of damaging it due to ... |
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 | Progress & production
2008-02-21, gianyar, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I left with John on the motorcycle in the rain. It rained all night and was still raining in the morning. No problem, that is what raincoats are for… First stop was at Made’s to look at my silver e... |
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| Support for Nyoman
2008-02-20, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | My first stop of the day is to support Nyoman as I said I would… I went and got three fresh fruit juices one for Nyoman, Wayan (massage therapist) and myself. We sat and visited for a while and then ... |
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 | A heavy heart :^(
2008-02-19, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Sorry to fill the last two pages with depressing news and hard times but I have one more. While visiting with my good friend Noman and Putu tonight they both had some sad news. Putu used to do my ma... |
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 | Guest in a classroom of kids & philanthropy choices
2008-02-18, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | The morning was hot and stifling, with sweat trickling down my back and running like a small stream down the crack of my butt… not a very nice sensation. I was happy to hop on the motorbike and get a... |
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 | Balancing Black and white magic
2008-02-17, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Every six months each town has a ceremony in order to perform song and dance to insure they keep black magic from bringing harm to their village. I may be totally mucking this description as I got a ... |
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 | Symon’s pop, low-brow art studio
2008-02-12, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Every time I come to Bali I like to check out Symon’s studio I am always inspired to run home and do some low-art. He does these silkscreen acrylic paint combo paintings. I also like to just hang ou... |
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 | New websites and slow connections
2008-02-15, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Last night it poured rain from 5pm all night and I had to quit uploading photos and my website and run home as fast as i could with my laptop. The lightening and thunder were awesome and when the rai... |
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| Valentines Day Bali Style
2008-02-14, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Happy Valentines day! The grocery stores here have big garish displays of red and pink wrapped candy, cards, and banners just like home.
My Valentines Day gift was my first batch of jewelry. To... |
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 | Ghost cats and memories
2008-02-11, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | My grandmother (Nana) once wrote, “memories tell us who we are” as I had my morning breakfast I ran across a bunch of older pictures that I scanned from my life before a digital camera. Photos of me ... |
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 | My little chickadees
2008-02-10, ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I spent the morning visiting all of the villages doing my jewelry. One of the villages had done a lot of work; thankfully, because they have a lot to do… the majority of the 1000 pieces. I only had ... |
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 | Trying to help the people of Bali
2008-02-09, Petulu, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I rode today to the beautiful town of Petulu which is famous for its steep terraces of rice fields. Along the way I picked up lots of new styles of wooden jewelry. I use these when I go to a show wh... |
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 | Two guys I couldn’t shake
2008-02-08, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | Ok… now that I have your attention, I should say that one guy had a tail and the other a radical multi-color suit and eight legs. I had the day off yesterday because there was nothing I needed to do ... |
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 | Reflections
2008-02-07, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | I find myself thinking about and reflecting on the people in my life and which experiences I would share with each of them. I wish we had the power to instantly transport ourselves, or others. It is... |
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 | Unpredictable uncertainty of customs
2008-02-03, Ubud, Indonesia. By: sbirch | | The flight the next day from Guam to Bali was 5.5 hours so I arrived at my favorite bungalow in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia around midnight after a little fretting in customs. It is always a little scary a... |
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 | The Adjustment Phase
2008-01-07, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. By: mala | | There is a phase in traveling where the initial culture shock, vacation euphoria and momentum all wear off at once. As they say, the honeymoon is over and the harsh reality starts to set in. If you ar... |
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 | Markets, Monkeys and Fire
2008-01-03, Ubud, Indonesia. By: mala | | We left our peaceful bubble in Sanur and headed to Bali's cultural capital, Ubud. We found it impossible to resist the calls of the market touts and many a conversation went as follows: "How much for ... |
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