How's it hangin there lads! It's been a almost a week from my last post and you might wonder what happened to the fast updating schedule . But there's the thing that at first everything was all new, but now after the first month life has found normal tracks here. I've been surfing every day mostly in Uluwatu and Padang Padang, went to school during the days and relaxed at home in the evenings. At this moment our villa is pretty full, because Vivianne's sister is here from Netherland and Ole's two friends from Germany are also here, so there's 11 people living in this house... works for me, because I really like this commune life.

Last Tuesday the owner of the villa, Mr. Bakri, took us all to a Chinese restaurant to celebrate the upcoming Chinese new year. It was very delicious, mostly all kinds of seafood stuffs like squid, calamari, shrimps and fish in a various sauces. Also some duck, tofu and vegetables was offered with rice of course. After the dinner we went back home and there was waiting a fresh copy of the Super Bowl 2013. We couldn't watch it live because the Internet is so slow and when the game was played, I was studying at school. Luckily I managed to avoid the score and the excitement was still around. So after the great meal I put the game on the screen, sat on the sofa with cold beer Bintangs and enjoyed the Super Bowl Tuesday. Yesterday after school and surfing, I drove to Kuta Beach to buy another surf board. My current one (6'2, 18, 2,25) works well in the bigger waves of Uluwatu, but when the waves are smaller it lacks a little bit. So I bought a little taller and thicker fish tail board (6'4, 18,75, 2,5). Today I'm gonna take it out to the sea, let's hope a good ones mates!

I've been here in Bali now just over a month, seen and experienced a lot of different things with many new friends. When I left from Finland, I thought that I wouldn't miss a single thing from Finland, only people. Now I have realized missing some things from Finland. Firstly I could really play some football once in a while, but haven't seen any fields or people playing it. Secondly some food like cheese (too expensive here) and rye bread of course. Otherwise the Indonesian food here is really good, mostly fried rice or noodles with chicken, beef, fish or vegetables. Today we also tasted Balinese food called Babi Guling, various parts of pig mixed with herbs and rice. Also fruits are awesome and delicious with all the mangos, melons and my personal favorite dragon fruit.

Couple of words regarding the traffic here: slow, slow, ultra crowded and slow. In Bali there are more than 3.5 million people plus tourists. There are couple of bigger highway-type roads, but unfortunately one of the biggest crossroad in the center is under constructions. This becomes a huge bottleneck, because the detour is this bumpy sand road in very poor condition. This is one of the "bad" qualities of Balinese mentality, if something is broken or in a need of attention... then somebody may someday take it under consideration if not too lazy. Little more effort to the condition of the roads and the traffic would work considerably better.

Today was the last day of school this week, now heading for the weekend. I caught the sniffles couple of days ago, so I think this weekend will be kinda slow and relaxing... surfing and hangin out with the fellows in the sun (+37 degrees today, oh boy!!), maybe couple bloody cold beers. Peace Out!

Main picture: Driving to school in Denpasar
Picture 2: Babi Guling
Picture 3: Dragon fruits
Picture 4: Johannes and Arto with Babi Guling