tjwells

well, my little vacation is rapidly coming to a close. a quick summary of my weeks here... overall life has been pretty relaxed. snowboarding, sleeping, eating...alot of eating, internet cafe-ing. just laying low. i had kind of come to terms that i wouldn't be seeing alot of the country on this trip, that i was here to visit levi and snowboard. and thats basically been it. i have picked up more spanish than i could have hoped, its funny how much i can understand because of the languages similarity to french, i can read most of the signs, understand the majority of the menus and almost follow a spanish conversation. my ability to converse is still minimal and i really struggle when spoken to. this town isn't really all that experienced when it comes to foreign ... read more

Oh the coincidence... First day I get to my e-mail, and my inbox contains a reminder from travelblog.org. "your account has been innactive for blah blah blah..etc." and so it was my friendly reminder that when its raining on your snowboard trip, you should sit on the internet for an ungodly amount of time and right a bunch of shit. You could say I am here, to entertain those back home, behind a desk, holding a tray, getting drunk due to lack of a better idea...luckily for all involved i'm only gone for three weeks, one of which has already passed me by. So don't worry these updates will be short lived and relatively pain free. I have however..i think figured out the whole picture situation (its easier when your not on a virus infested computer ... read more

...so i have managed to seduce a good looking boy and have stolen his computer. it may sound ridiculous and far fetched but i assure you its true. we all know that capitalization and punctuation are for well educated bloggers...and as an underpaid, overworked snowboard instructor we know that educated is something i am not. as we were... back at the ferry "terminal" in Lembar, Lombok...Tristan and I were starting to feel quite at home in our new found Indonesian province of choice. even though the taste of banana pancake lingered from an early breakfast, we found ourselves starving waiting the 2 hours for the twelve o'clock ferry back to Padangbai. its funny, in Lombok i don't remember eating with utensils. the locals just eat with their hands, and of course their is a finger dish ... read more

Wow, i apologize for the last blog i wrote. I'm feeling depressed and slightly suicidal myself after reading that tragic short story. lucky for us all a 2 week break from my blog has inspired all sorts of creativity. The thing is that back here in ol' Singapore, the 15 minute terminals actually become 15 minute terminals during the day. It would appear that the lack of activity one month ago was due to the fact that it was 3 in the morning. Weird! Anyways, lets sum up the past 2 weeks shall we. So I left Gili T on a Tuesday of some unknown date. After 2 minutes of being on the island hopping boat it became apparent that I had reached celebrity status over on Gili Air before setting foot. Tris and Scotty had ... read more

Not long after my blog yesteray I was taken down by a mystery illness that involved alot of vomiting and very little eating. luckily i was well by morning, just in time to make it to my dive refresher course. The morning involved a quick session in the pool and then a break for lunch before going out for our first ive back in the ocean. We went to a dive site just on the other side of Trawangan, called Halik Reef and Wall. We were down for about an hour and saw all sorts of sea life including turtles, reef sharks, and even an angry mother trigger fish who attacked us. I start my Advanced Open Water Course tomorrow. A deep water dive at 9am, a navigational dive at 1pm and then a night dive ... read more