Bert Vierstra
Nothing much today. Many computer problems, modem broken, network card broken, the plastic chair looked very tempting again. Many email to answer.I looked trough my "old" pictures and found this one:http://bali-information.com/forumpics/july.jpg[/img]I took it in Panji, it was a preparation for a mass cremation. I was in Bali maybe just a few days, and after 7 depressing months of The Netherlands I found myself shaking of excitement and fear in the middle of many Balinese, in the middle of my new home. I was so overwhelmed I could cry. It was the situation. It was also the "thing" I was looking for, the culture shock, the difference, to make me alive again. Now its slowly becoming "normal" to be here, its normal to swim in the sea in Januari, instead of shivering in a thick coat, and looking at grey skies. It becoming normal to have a slow internet connection instead of 150kbs cable. Its normal to have people running around my house instead of watching tv, alone. Its normal to try to become healthy and want to live, instead of not caring about myself. Bali is such a normal, natural place to be, alive.--Saw Steve today in Warung Anda. He asked what I thought about the US and the planned invasion in Iraq. It seems the papers already know the date. I said it won't come to that, they haven't got the moral consensus for that.---
