Life here has been pretty mellow lately. Our days usually go something like this: wake up, go to school, drive back home & grab our boards and head to the beach for an afternoon surf or just cruise over to our friends villa and hang at their epic pool. Last week we had a great day river rafting in northern Bali together with a bunch of students froom school. The rafting was something new for both of us and we didn't really know what to expect. We ended up ...

After Ramadhan and all the crazy holidays, it seems like our Bali life is back to normal. We've been having some crazy days at school, from 8am to 5:30pm. Luckily enough there's not too many of those, but they came along because many school days were cut short due to Hindu and Muslim holidays. That's just how certain things work around here, religion is first, and school stuff can be re-arranged with ease as a second priority. Many of our school friends have fin...

Ramadhan is the ninth month of the Islamic calendar, and Indonesia being the country with the largest muslim population, its impossible to pass by Indo without noticing it. Some of our friends here in Bali are muslim, and for them it is completely normal to fast during the entire month. Kalle would have a hard time trying to be without eating for a month. No that they dont eat, its just that they only eat at night. At sundown they finally may eat and drink, then...

School begins as guests arrive! So we're back in Bali! When things happen here, it seems like they all happen at once. We finally got school underway after 3 months of vacation! We met up with Harri and Tuomas from Asia Exchange (www.asiaexchange.org), which is with whom we arranged this exchange program with at the beginning of the week. From then on,the entire week has been non-stop. We had our orientation days, in which there was a very interesting tal...