back to bali

im here. my god. i feel home.

back up a few days ago i was running around in the snow in inappropriate footwear, sopping wet, cold, trying to store my 1 million belongings (ill never understand why i own so many aprons or tapes), and left to kansas city with boxes still in my living room and about 6 bags of trash on the kitchen floor.

my dad drove me the 4 hours to catch a 99 dollar flight. on the way there i threw my little red flats (said sopping shoes from above) out the window and then boarded a plane with my backpack and huge bag filled with medical supplies. finally i was off.

landed in SF to be picked up by sara, found out animal chin is not actually a real person as i hung out in oakland with robin, ian and dezi. ate ethiopian food. drank beer with mara. drove around with emily. ran into excitable andrew at REI. got about no sleep. and danced to my favorite breaks at madrone. re fell in love with the city by the bay, lost my cellphone an hour before i left for the airport, found out my credit card stopped working and gave into the total mess that is my life.

our flight was long and involved sara and i making a sandwich of ourselves (her lap, my head, her head on my back, squashed) sleeping lots of hours, nasty food, weird movies, and then landing in taipei. our second flight included being bumped to biz class. huge seats. too much leg room. bloody marys, white wine and about 6 hours of super mario bros. it was lovely.

finally we arrived to deal with customs for the following hour or so, bribed them, got our medical supplies and drove off with noel through the fucking brightest green dotted with my favorite flowers to the village of nyuh kuning where my heart feels at home. im a total fucking sap and its undeniably true... bali brought out all my happiness last year and though its still pretty much at maximum level, coming back just feels so good.

so anyway, im here in the balmy heat, already sunburned from riding around on the motorbike, curly headed as ever, barefoot, outside while inside, day dreaming about surfing later this week. im hoping to get in some births in the next few days, tomorrow i have my first meeting concerning the youth center project, and a some more days after that i move down to sanur by the beach.

yes.