so its been a wee while since i last posted. last weekend we went up to village for Nyepi day. Bali new year. we travelled up to village last thursday. it was much better going up this time only rained a little bit through the mountains. mind you this time we seemed to have stopped a few more times. took us about 4 hours instead of 2 and half hehe. on the friday, day before Nyepi we went down to the beach for a huge Om ceremony. i said to Nyoman that mum would have laughed at me if she saw me. i was dressed in the Bali uniform and sitting sideways on the scooter travelling down the mountain that the street was broken everywhere. i could not stop laughing.
this is a photo of Nyoman and i at the ceremony on the beach. there was more than a thousand people there.. it was kind of hard to sit still when we were all sitting on ants eek. Nyomans nephew looked very cute in his uniform. 
after the ceremony we scooted back up to Nyomans house and just relaxed for a few hours. well i studied for my mid tests and Nyoman played cards with his sisters and his cousins. watching them play is so funny.. its a very confusing game if you dont know whats going on. we went back down the entrance to the village and watched the Ogoh- ogoh parade, if you dont know what they look on google images. every village or temple within a village makes a scary looking monster also known as an ogoh ogoh. they make these as an offering to the bad spirits on Nyepi day. on saturday (Nyepi Day) this is a day for silence. no electricity, meaning no lights no t.v and no fires. they do this so as when the bad spirits come to Bali in the evening they will see that the island is dark and empty so they will leave again. its very interesting what they believe. we however being in the mountain went totally againts all this. we made a fire. we had torches, we were being very loud, and then when it got really dark we played cards with two scooters facing us.. oops lol. so we came back to Kuta on sunday night. on the way home got a flat tyre then when we finally got home our room was entirely flooded. i mean like a foot under water. was not happy. had mid tests this week. all went ok i hope.Bahasa Indonesian was pretty much the same as the practise test hehe. the other were a lil bit hard but lets home the results are ok.i now have ten day holiday.. uhhhh what to do... well ill let you know what i do.. till next time.
