Hi my friends of our Bali Travel Forum.
Have been back from Bali just on a couple of weeks now from my 28th trip & getting over my usual bit of flu which I always seem to get from the planes cooling system.
Garuda hasent changed. You must pay cash for extra weight. I told him I knew him from Air Paradise & he backed off telling me his family has no money to buy food.
Also suggested we get " from Inagrasi " down and then no problems.
My trip was good even though I had to return via Sydney.
Getting into Melbourne we were the only plane & copped it bad from Customs. They had trainees & I copped two of them with their boss.
This " little smart arse girl " said I notice you on the xray machine of your case you have a lot of watches. What are you going do with them?
I said to her dont worry about the watches as I can make more money out of of the 300 dvds I have and she referred it to her supervisor who sort of laughed & gave me the thumbs up.
I couldnt help my self & offered her & supervisor free entree into any SAINTS game at Telstra Dome.
Yeah Im a mouth sometimes.
Their boss at the checkout said you are shaking do you have a problem? No mate Ive been on the " piss" at Peanuts for over three weeks. This made me really popular.
Best time I shut my mouth. Custms went trough everthing.
The highlight of this trip had to be the visit to the village to see the new house that had been built for my sponsored family.
I had found out a few months before Xmas that my sponsored family had to get off their little piece on loand land & find some where else to live and vacate it quick.
I spoke to Helen of the Helen Flavel Foundation & we arranged wot could be done & it WAS.
Arriving with Suka to the village( Nyoman Sukadama is Helens operations manager in Bali ) I was overwhelmed to see the results of hard work by the friends of the family and the village to have their brick house erected in two weeks.
As I walked over in amazement to the new building the mother of my two adopted girls Nyoman & Ketut ran at me and hugged me saying in broken English " my famlies Guardian Angel "
She was in tears & by this time I wasent far behnd.
For the next hour I looked through the house at their three bedrooms plus toilet come shower & kitchen with the gas stove and bottle I got them but only used if wood is too wet to burn.
The Sanyo tv that I got from Makro looks great in their little hall way.
Great to see how the house was built with plenty of air ducts.
It was so hard just sitting with everybody hugging me & crying.
I thought about it and Suka helped me out as my Indo aint that good.
I now look at the next part of project. later on in the year I will tile their floor & plaster their walls to finish it of.
I think then its time to stop.
Their house now is just about complete. It looks so advanced in whats around them.
Do you go further & make a mansion out it?
Do you make my two girls different people to their school friends?
I have had Nyoman & Ketut at the supermarket picking out clothes of the rack.
It could be very bad to take the family out of their enviourment.
How far do we go with this?
I am quite happy to help them out with a bit of bedding & a little bit of furniture.
So when I visit I will just take the family to the the local market & buy them food.
Last time a heap of dried fish, beans, garlic & other bits & pieces, cost RPH400000 just over $A50 which would last them three months.
Think about it people of the BTF. Do you agree with me?
I am interested with your comments.
Apart from this. My late wife Anne would be so proud to be apart of this and she with my daughter Vikki are still my driving force.
If you want to see the photos of the new house please email me above & see what can be put on a blotk of land for $A1500.
You will be amazed.
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LEARNING CENTRE.
You probably look and say wot is this????
About ten mins drive from my family just past Nyoman Sukadamas house is the newly erected building called the learning centre.
This has been built from friends of the Helen Flavel Foundation.
I saw the building on my previous visit which was just about finished.
Really was happay to see my two girls Nymoman & Ketut helping out there cleaning the walls also with other children from sponsored families.
The schools around the area are so glad about this. It has eight rooms, which include an office for Suka & Helen when she is there, computer room ( only got four at the moment ) a big room for a library, rooms to hold twenty five other after class stuents each, toilets, kitchen & we upstairs to the roof & looking one way you see the beautiful beach of Lovina & turning around you witness the lovely mountains.
This is my posting about my sponsorship of my Bali family through the Helen Flavel Foundation from my visit.
I am not advertising this at all & Im sure Ken our Adim Mgr knows what I am about.
Thank you all.
In Closing.
I found the usaual parts of the tourist area in Kuta & Legian very quiet.
Street sellers in Poppies 2 & the Peanuts end of Legian St are very aggressive.
To you people that know what I mean just be a little more cautious than usual.
I still love Bali & it will allways be my " Island of Dreams "
It will also be a wonderfull place if there are people, Helen Flavel.
Love to you all.
Bob