Bert Vierstra
How do I get rid of her, I asked a javanese friend today. "Well", my friend said, "Balinese are different from the people from Java. If you tell someone from Java, please don't come to my house again, they don't come again. If you tell someone from Bali not to come to your house again, they will keep coming anyway. For example I have some flowers in front of my house, If I tell the people from Java that they should leave the flowers alone, they just smell them and leave them. But Bali people already have taken the flower and put it behind their ear." I brought the sandals her family left at my house the other day back to Komang, and was to much a coward to say that I don't wont to see her anymore.Two years ago, I asked a Balinese cabdriver about all the Javanese workers on Bali, "Are they not taking your bread, ehhh rice?". No, he said. Its fine. But if things get worse in tourism somehow they will still be here, what then?, "We kill them" he said. Balinese are a rough folk. In the north they are even more rough, I heard, their use of the language is more "Kasar" then in the south.Today a "Tamu" came to my house to get some information about obtaining a visum. He had a T-Shirt with jiggy-jig written on it. He told me that you can buy cheap land in Sumatra. About 1,5 million for 1 hectare. Its bloody hot overthere, but you can make some money as a planter. "Where will you go when the war starts" he asked. "What war" I asked surprised, thinking of Balinese freedom fighters. "When America attacks Iraq our governements will say to us that we have to go home". "Oh" I said, "Only in cremated form, and not even then", I thought.Had a chat with a girl again, she made my mind wanting to go a gear or two higher, but my engine is running safe and sound in physical mode (and it misses the gears anyway). And I have an official date with an expat !!Here a picture of a allmost military schoolmarch you see pretty often in Bali, probably Indonesia.http://bali-information.com/forumpics/schoolmarch.jpg[/img]
