Nyepi

I was thinking about it anyway, but when I got an sms from Rock saying I should come to bali for Nyepi, I was pretty much certain I would go. I went to the travel agent and it was only 590.000Rp return, so no probs there. Nyepi was the 7th, the day of silence, so I had to be there on the 6th to see the celebrations, I booked my flight for the 5th, then its Rocky’s birthday on the 14th of March, so I thought I would skip a week of uni and stay to celebrate with him.

Clare’s birthday was on Wednesday, the day I left for bali. (sorry about all the tense changes in this, I’ve obviously written it days after all this happened.. Haha) anyway, so she was gonna have dinner at 6:30, then go to big belly after that. But my flight was at 9pm, so I had to leave at about 7:30.. I didn’t leave much time.. I just ordered and ate and then left basically.. Haha… I got a message later from clare saying thanks for coming and for the present… We all chipped in and got her membership to a gym here.. I cut it pretty close, I stayed at her dinner til 7:30, but forgot I had to go home to grab my bags and stuff first AND go to the atm, so it was 7:45 before I actually left….. Only 15mins to get to the airport!!! 

I was 15mins late.. . But my flight was delayed.. Haha.. So there was no probs.. (sorry this is such a dodgy blog… I don’t even know if its making sense… )

So I got to Rocky’s house at about midnight, just ended up crashing, the next day we went to see the parade of ogoh-ogoh it was pretty amazing. They are these huge statues, they represent all of the evil and badness in people, they are paraded on the streets and then burned, the following day, nyepi, everyone is supposed to stay inside, not making much noise, or using electricity, thinking about their mistakes of the past year so they are not repeated in the new year. According to the Hindu calender, it is now the year 1930. We weren’t exactly “good hindu’s” on nyepi tho… we used blankets and covered the windows, so even during the day it was dark inside, then Rocky and his friend played playstation and computer all night, haha… and we didn’t fast… it was kinda fun tho… trying to make sure we weren’t found out… it reminded me of the bog-bog comic Rocky showed me in alice springs, there was a guy hiding in the basement watching tv… so it must be pretty common… haha..

Today, the day after nyepi, we had planned to go out and jalan-jalan… but this morning they decided to rebuild the driveway, haha… so it doesn’t seem like we will be going anywhere anytime soon.. Haha.. So im just writing this blog, stuck in this room with rocky and his mate still playing games.. Haha.. With music blaring… so loud, haha.. Maybe the idea of the day after nyepi is to make as much noise as possible?

Well… this blog isn’t anywhere near as good as I wanted it to be… but I really can’t be bothered writing it.. The only reason I started is cause I didn’t wanna forget what’s been happening. So sorry for the shitty writing, wrong tenses and badly told stories..