news.

well today i found out who i am in class with. none of my friends except Eric. it stinks. well i am exited about this year and cant wait for it to start. it wont be as fun without everybody from last year. still i guess i have to accept that and suck it up. and pray that they make last minute changes. my homeroom teachers are Mr Gary and ibu Joceline. i don't know any body in my class except Eric Christie and Jessica so it will be hard to get used to it. if any body heard about the bombing in Jakarta don't worry or anything. it is just bad publicity. I mean what do you know about Indonesia except that there were a bunch of bombings and a tsunami along with the most amount of volcano's in one country. and i live here.

anyway i have a bunch of exciting or not so exciting hobbies: photography, watercolour and modeling (not the wear something outrageously silly and say it is the new fashion but making planes out of plastic and gluing them together)ha ha! I have also decided to become a teacher. i don't really know why but I would like to teach history in some remote extremely preppy private school.

well i guess i gave up on bali yet again!

any way.... summer has been cool. not cold cool cuz its actually been reallyhot but like more of a radical cool... any way my mom has started to wake me up before 9! its horrible! I cant wait until summer next year because i will finally be coming back to canada. cant wait it will be so fun. since bali i have had a lot of interesting experiences. our family bought an airmatress and we play this game<> to see who can stay on the airmatress the longest. its super awesome. we also have a lime tree! and me and my sister each have our own bushes and it is super awesome. we have to trim them and stuff. mine is so much better than abbys. we also built this thing in our back yard that is to prevent mud from splashing our deck thing. SO we dug a atrench thing and filled it with bricks so that the rocks that cover the mud are all enclosed in a sort of cage..
after we were finished with that our driver started to bring us rocks but only a little at a time because he only has a little scooter.
the other day my mom wanted some papers to be burnt and so abby and i decided to go burn them where the rocks were.then abby found some sticks and we carved them so that they had sharp ends and we roasted marsh mellows over the fire. we have this big thing full of cardboard so we didnt have any trouble with the fire going down until we were done with it.
btw did i tell you our air mattress has a hole in it now. its horrible. but thankfully we bought some stuff to patch it with.
another exciting thing that happened last wednesday was that the new people came! we are hosting one family who have a 6 year old son who live right down the street. their last name is boldosser. it looks like their name is bulldozer but do not call them that!hahah. it is pronounced balldasser. mr james is going to teach grade 6 and lives in the same house that abbys last teacher lived in. it would be really ironic if this guy was abbys teacher this year.
any way I cant think of any thing to write about or anything so see ya later.

bali (again)

for the past 3 weeks I have been in Bali! it is totally awesome! I went to 4 different hotels in 4 very different places. one was on an extremely busy surfing beach that I absolutely love and where I learned to body board. the second place was on an island called lembongan. it is an hours boat ride from Bali and was really cool. it is really good for snorkeling and body boarding without the bustle of legian (the first place that I went)the 3rd place was in a little town called amed which is very non touristy. it was more like a fishing village with a lot of little villas where people can stay. we stayed at this one place that was run by this lady that bought it when the rupiah doubled or something and so she bought this place in legian and turned it into a hotel. it was very much made for older people who wanted quiet. this place had some really good snorkeling. the next place we went was in an island attached to the mainland sort of like Granville island in Vancouver. its called nusa dua. this place was very busy and we ended up going to legian and a place where our friends were staying that was also in nusa dua called the novotel. this place wass really good for sitting and getting burnt. more detail later with more pics:) ttys
matt

baddish week

wow I havent blogged in awhile
well I guess i will just talk about the time that I havent blogged. this past week has been super boring and i am actually missing homework. it is really starting to scare me. well moving on: their are a bunch of teachers leaving this year and I didnt get to say goodbye to a bunch of them. BTW school went out this thursday and report cards were due from the teachers last friday so we were very bored this week with no homework and really nothing to do at all.
this tuesday we had a quiz on statistics and we were all wondering how the teacher would change the grade on the report cards. this seemed a bit suspicious... I mean how is he supposed to get into the computer after they have been shut down and then get into the report card things after they have been sent to the peoples houses. really wierd. any way this monday we went to this waterpark that has this really cool slide called the hairpin. you have a tube with 4 people that goes down a realy steep sloping slide. some people go backwards because you face each other (its circlular)
I also hit my head on the way down and i have a goose egg the size of a goose egg that wont go away.
this wednesday we had a party in evryclass and on thursday I learned how to play the trumpert... my first song (which i composed but my friends named) is death by trumpet... hehehe BTW i was being sarcastic. if sounds could kill every body in that room would be dead about now.
on thursday we had a deeper concert which is like a worship thing with a message that the school puts on... after that I went with eric and andre to carls house for a sleep over. haddon was supposed to come but he decided he was "busy" and that he had company... my friends and I are being a little put off because he does this all the time. he puts nothing into a relationship. the next day we went to the mall for a movie with my homeroom (7.4) and we saw him there. that was again really annoying because we had gone to his house earlier that day and he ahad been all snarky and told us "to just leave and not come back". we saw him with kids from another class which put us off even more because this was supposed to be a class party thing where we all went to the mall and had fun.
I think that I will stop ranting about haddon now.
any way this week has been not too great other that going out of school...
see ya

schoooools out for the summer! (well... almost)

ahhh... I cant wait for summer break and a party in practically every class! woot woot.
and I am going to Bali for 3 weeks with the Comries and we are going to one of the best snorkeling places that they have ever been to and they have lived here almost 15 years. the grad ceremony for our grade 12s was today and while that was happening I was upstairs reading lord of the rings about to be interrupted by a worker/cleaner upper who wanted to talk with a bule (pronounced boolay) we had a really interesting chat bout his dead mother father and grandmother in a language that i do not totally understand. in fact I rarely understand any thing people are saying and if there isn't a translator I am completely lost. i have to admit my BI is getting a bit better but not enough for a 'civilized' conversation. i have a feeling that i sounded like a cave man. eg: indo guy: this is my dead father mother and grandmother
me: they been dead 3 years ya?
indo guy: no all three of them have been dead for 10 years.
me: ooohhh... so they been dead 10 years
indo guy: yes
i had no idea what i was even saying... really embarrassing. ANYway the grad ceremony sounded really cool. all the girls were in traditional batik and they had this lacy thing over it and the guys had batik shirts with black pants.
back to the conversation between the indo guy and me... i really didnt want to be talking to him... for me reading takes priority over learning some lost language that a 200 or so million people speak. learning what graduation means in indonesian is not my idea of fun. and my sntence structure was probably way worse that that ... instead of saying'they been dead 10 years' I probably blurted 'ten years????' with a nervous laugh/smile that makes me look like i want to run away.

got to go wash dishes... BORING!!!
see ya
matt

no mrs o is leaving tomorrow!!!!:( it has been really fun while she has been here and I am going to put a few pictures on here that will help her to remember this visit...

mrs dale just said that if they are "icky" she is going to take them off so i made sure that I dont have "icky" pictures