What do 23 Aussies, 2 Americans, 1 Canadian and 1 Ireland..ian
have in common? Sunscreen, bug spray and one month in Bali. Oh and of course
copious amounts of Bintang! We have been chosen by the powers that be, to live
together as global hobos in a beautiful big brother style villa. It’s been 4 days and we’ve established Catherine
will answer to Caitlyn and Caitlyn will answer to Kristen and I might be the
only person who says “new-tella” rather than “nut-ella”. The name game is
getting stronger though! I’ve never experienced so many people pronouncing AND
spelling my name correctly in such a short period of time. I think we’ve really
got something good here. Ashley is the only boy in the group and he proved his
alpha maletivity last night on the “D floor”. Tomorrow night is our house
warming party.. To be themed or not to be themed? If anyone has any Bali budget
friendly theme suggestions I’m accepting submissions until 12 tonight!
Apart from swimming nude and on call massages, rest assured
we are actually here to get work done. Global Hobo Goddess Gemma curates this majestic
experience for interns to live in Bali for one month, studying Bahasa Indonesian
and writing articles for Global Hobo. By the end of the month we will have put together
2 guide books with 75 travel reviews made from our blood, sweat and tears. We’ve
already put in 2 out of the 3. That is minor scrapes and bruises from scooter accidents
on the third day. I did a 2 hour walk into town but even 5 minutes out of the
a/c and your feeling like a carny prize bagged gold fish. I’m sure of course we
will be very teary towards the last days.
Today I was feeling confident with my Indonesian; I got some
dinner from a local food stall and introduced myself to the couple running the
place.
*clears throat*
Salamat Sore, nama saya Raisha.
Appa kamu nama?
Appa Kapal?
Juga biak
Saya dari Kanada . Dan saya sekerja di Australia. Sekerja
saya di Bali, jalan jalan dan menulis. Saya belenja di sekolah Cinta Bahasa.
Dan saya tingal di Surya Abadi 2.
Not 100% with my spelling but I said:
Good day, my name’s
Raisha
What’s your name? How
are you?
I’m also good.
I’m from Canada. And I
work in Australia. Now I’m in Bali, traveling and writing. I study at school
Cinta Bahasa. And I live at Surya Abadi 2.
This was such a proud moment for me and I was just so happy
and the couple seemed so happy for me than she brought my rice and chicken soup
and just sat beside me kind of watching me eat and it was like a weirdly comfortable
moment. Then she said something to me obviously noticing the confused expression
on my face, turned back to her friends and they laughed for like 5 minutes. So
by the end of my soup I’d say we were all basically best friends.
Sampejumba! Terimakasi!
Goodbye ! Thank you!
So yeah just your regular 9-5 office days. Puttin in work. You
know, pencil skirts, tryingly quirky ties, staying ergonomically positioned in
our chairs and talking about the annoying printer that’s been jammed for like 9
centuries. Just shy of one business week down and I am very very excited for
what the rest of this month has hidden behind the staples on the store room
shelf.
Also expecting our Bahasa Indonesian guru to get increasingly
uneased by our very basic sexually suggestive sentences!
Peace love and Bali babes <3
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