Sadly on my way home, leaving beautiful Bali

Last day in Benoa. The weather is still beautiful, I just can’t get over the fact, that a month as gone by already. It truly does not feel like it.
I didn’t go to Jimbaran, I didn’ t know why I didn’t really want to go eat live lobster, I had many reasons but didn’t exactly know why. Here everybody as a friend that owns a restaurant on the beach at Jimbaran, and offers to pick you upand drive you back for free! This did not raise any questions in my mind, because I saw Mc Delivery here, pick up is not good enough, here McDonald will deliver your fast food . First I thoughtI just didn't want to go anywhere I need it to drive too, I wanted to stay in this area, I don’t have time to go there and there. Also, I felt guilty having a mouthwatering crustacean without my husband who loves crab. It didn’t feel right with me and I would not of enjoyed my diner alone with a big lobster. And the third reason is, do I really want to go somewhere they will screw up my lobster. Every time I have ask for cold shrimp in my salad, they yes it is possible, but the shrimps are always arrive hot. Here a shrimp cocktail is hot, never cold. So I know they would off serve me my lobster hot, and only like seafood cold. When its cold it brings the sweetness and flavor out lot more than hot. But if it's luke warm I will not enjoy my meal.
On the way to the airport even the taxi driver ask me if I been to Jimbaran I said no, he made it sound like I miss something extraordinary. I ask him to stop at the big nice monument in town so I can take one last photo and ask him what the monument was about, and he said, for the bomming victims. I knew one had been in Kuta, I didn’t know where was the second one. Jimbaran is where the last bomb hit. Now, I know why everyone want you to go there. I guess many tourist stay away from that area, and all the Balinese are connected together to bring tourist there. It is known to be the place for live seafood, caught right there in the ocean in the morning. Did I mention that the thought of eating a lobster in water that if full of garbage didn’t appeal to me either? If the only two beaches I seen were dirty, most likely the rest are too. I was explained what is happening in Bali, since the beginning of time, the habitants of Bali found their food in the nature and cultivated some of their food. Then, they throw everything back to the nature. If they eat in a banana leaf plate, the leaf is thrown back to the nature. If they cook food in a piece of bamboo, the bamboo goes back to the nature. They live their entire life in symbiosis with the nature. The last generation now, has been throwing back all plastic to the nature, because all they know, is that you can make anything from the nature and the nature will decompose it. They cannot comprehend plastic is not decomposable, how can something found in this planet not decompose. It is hard to educate those people living in remote area, or very pool. I was told that in school the kids are thought not to throw the plastic away. But the eldest really don’t get it, they either burn the plastic or throw it in the nature. The younger are trying to teach the oldest you can’t throw plastic into the nature or burn it, as it is very toxic. I can understand what is going on, what happen to the Balinese, they got invaded by plastic too, and they didn’t know at the time it wouldn’t decompose or you cannot burn it, they might have had a second though.
They also believe that the water makes everything disappear because it always did for hundreds of years. I saw in Benoa some students that were cleaning the mangrove, which is a good sign. They understand the importance of the mangrove and the younger generation will try to save it, but what is happening in Bali is happening everywhere else, with the poor countries of the world. Now, we have to reverse the damage, and a lot of the damage in poor countries is done unknowingly by its habitants.

I arrive in time at the airport,early enough so I can eat. I am a bit surprise how you find many McDonalds in this area, but it is logical for them to be here. Lots of tourist, it’s a big city, culture goes out the window here too. I was curious to see the menu here, but too much luggage to check it out. If you want to eat here, the restaurants are all outsides in the scorching heat, No food inside the airport, that is a bit strange and I am glad I asked, otherwise I would off been stuck inside the airport with no food to eat but junk. So I ordered take out and went in, in the much cooler environment. I am flying with Air China to Taipan is it is very interesting to observe the Asian's behaviors. I watch them in Ubud as well, as they would go to Ubud in a charter bus to shop for the day. When they were in Ubud, you couldn’t walk on the sidewalk of Monkey Forest Road. They were so numerous. They must be the champion of shopping, not just their women but the men’s as well. I think brands do well because of their fierce appétite for brand names. They love brand name, the more expensive, the more popular the brand is!One thing boggles me, they seem to be champion at shopping, but I would like to know where they get their sense of fashion. It is absolutely indescribable. They will wear a Coach purse, with some backpack that looks like it belongs to a two year old, some ugly designer skirt that looks like it comes from Value Village, a top that is far from matching anything they are wearing, with a bright neon oversized pair of crock's! They own every gadget on the planet, as you watch them wait, they are all busy pushing some bottoms, no one talks to each other, they have a conversation with a piece of metal and plasticl As I Iook around, they all have an ipod in a pocket, a camera around the neck and either standing or walking while texting. For them, going to Indonesia to shop, is like going to heaven, they get lot more for their money as their currency is very strong (Japanese). Many just fly over for a week end, it is still cheaper than shopping back home. They are also, starting to invest in Bali. In a newspaper I saw a statistique of the increase of foreigners residents in Bali. Japan was first in the progression of foreigners moving to Bali with an increase of 41% compare to last year. The official number of Japanese immigrants, was 1797 in 2009. They are now, side by side with the Australian who have been immigrating for years to Bali. If you are curious Canada is in 11th place with only 210 immigrants. I sure hope to be in the new statistic one day.
The return, is a long flight but shorter than when I came in. From Denpasar, we have a four hour flight to Taipei. In Taipei some two and half hour wait for the next flight. There I spent some time looking at their duty free shop, our duty free shops are nothing compare to Taipei!. If you want to see rare and fancy liquor they have it all!. I have no more doubt now, believing, as I heard they spend $1000 on a tiny bottle of iced wine from Canada. They have exclusive cognac, sake, iced wine and so many special edition liqueur. Even special edition from France. I don’t like liquor but it is fun to look at the bottles who are all more exclusive than the other. They are so expensive they are in a glass case that no one can open.Sometime a guard stands beside a particular one. I am glad, I didn’t buy any liquor. Because when you have a transit, you have to go through security again. No liquid is allowed over 10 ml. They don’t care how much it’s worth they take it away, no matter what.
We arrived in Vancouver early enough for me to see the beautiful mountains, covered in snow. Since I have been away for a month, I have no idea how the Olympic went, since when I left they was not a lot of snow for the competitions. There is still a few athletes in the airport, returning home, but they are all in a wheelchair. I still have a few hours to go, so I go to Tim Horton to get a bagel and a coffee. I have not had anything like this in awhile. The coffee was aweful; I forgot how I don’t like Tim Horton’s coffee, I have been drinking real good coffee in the morning, without any bitterness and full of flavor. The coffee in Bali is so good that I barely used milk, when you did used milk, the coffee still remain dark. It was nice to hear Canadian news on the big screen tv in the waiting area, but it made me realized, do we ever go without any murders for a week?. We have so much violence here compare to Bali. The only jail is in Denpasar, as it is a big city, there is sometime trouble there too, but I was told murdering someone is an extremely rare casualty. Crime there is mainly theft and still for a country that is not so rich, theft is not common as we would imagine. Once we boarded the West Jet flight, it really felt like I was truly on my way home. We had West Jet most friendly and funny flight attendant team ever. Specially Wendy who was the Flight attendant in charge, she had a talent and should be a one woman show! After her first announcement, I said out loud, I need some of that coffee you are drinking, everybody laugh and the men next to me said, that is not coffee, but something else! Here is some of her funny instruction or announcement;
On the welcoming announcement she invited anyone with a bad mood to walk of the plane now, as they do not take passengers in a bad mood! She then announce the light will be tame down during the flight as recent studies shows that when reducing lights during flights, it slows the appearance of wrinkles of the flight attendants. Please, be aware that the arm rest can be lifted in case you need to stay tucked in your seat, please use the arm rest, if you don’t wish to be found drewling all over your neighbor in a big profound sleep! For your convenience the head rest, also wraps around your head for better stability. If ever the cabin pressure drop, a mask will drop in front of you, put the mask over your sniffer and kisser…Ok let’s get this Boeing going!...This buckle belt as been around since the 60”s, if you never seen one of those, we have them here…. If you have any question write it on the back of a $50 bill, I promise, will get back to you…The lighting system on the floor as been approved by Martha Stewart…
She was so hilarious, everyone clapped at the end of her last announcement. It was nice to laugh like this, after a long trip and nice to see there is still people with a good sense of humor. And the entire team was happy going with lots of vitality. If she would off worked for Air Canada, they would probably penalized her for inappropriate conduct, during her announcements. I am very happy and so were the other passengers, that West Jet lets her bring some humor into those boring announcement. I hope to find the time, to let West Jet know that we appreciate her sense of humor and the team smile. Someone like this deserves to be notice. She was so funny and talented; I was thinking if I was a producer I would get a hold of her!
And I arrived in Toronto at 6:00 am not a minute before, as we are not allowed to land before 6am, in a beautiful sunny and warm day. We all say good bye to the people we have made conversations with during the numerous flights and it really hits me now, back to the normal life. I will greatly miss Bali. I love travelling and appreciate every culture and country I visit, but this is the first time I encounter a strong sense of belonging there, and wanting to move there. Rather I will ever be able to convince my husband of this is another story! I am sure it would be an easy sell if it wasn’t on the other side of the globe! When you think of it, it is far away, I was only two hours away from Australia. When I arrived home, it felt so weird and different. The morning are so quite, compare to the wonderful birds signing in Bali, it was so strange that I went for a walk in the mountain, still, there is no birds signing,during mid day. I will miss all the birds you hear every day, they kind of fill the background for you. Now, I will have to put on, one of those CD you use when you are at a spa, with the birds and the water in the background, it is so relaxing, it as a soothing therapeutic effect. I know now, as I feel strange without the noise, they are truly calming and soothing.

I would like to express my gratitude to my loving husband, who probably just had the longest month of his life. I am greatful for his fidelity and trust, patience, understanding and love.I would like to thank everyone who followed my journey, I did not feel so lonely with you in my life. I know the blog was full of spelling mistakes, as someone amically commented that the orthography would make a second year English major blush, but this blog is at least authentique! What matters is not the perfection of the English text, what matters is the journey.I hope, you still understood the fundamentals. I wish to thank every one that had a thought or pray for my computer, so it does not let me down due the humid heat it had to endure. My laptop made it home without crashing! If you wonder what made it possible, it is called Quantum physics, you should look it up, I cannot explain this one to you but I can give you something very powerful to do. I did it while in Bali, and good things started to happen, as you witness on my blog. Do this exercice once a month, it takes only 23 minutes of your time, you dont need to understand how it works or what you read, just sit there and go with the flow, see how your life will start to change. It is free, so use it, pass it along to all your friends. It was important for me to introduce you to Quantum physics as I talk about it in my book.Go to;
www.quantumk.co.uk/quantumk_video.htm
Do not hesitate to send me your comments and I do accept donations for my future return to Bali!! Love you all, read my last blog about Bali after Easter, before we return to blog about tea!Donations and comments can be sent to; thetealady@bellnet.ca
And don't forget to have a good laugh today, laughing is what keeps us young at heart and happy. A life without laugh is also a life with illness and health issues. Laugh is the best medicine, and one that no one can charge you for it!