mandag 18. mai 2009

17th of may celibrated Bali style!

17th of May marks, as all Norwegians should know, our independance day in 1814. (I actually had to double check with Chris for the year. I blame the celibration yesterday for this) For the first time of our lives, we were away from home on this national day. Luckily, we happened to be in Bali surrounded by a bunch of other Norwegians. We met up with some girls who studied a year in Singapore, making us about 20 people. The day started at 4:30pm at the beach. Some of the group went earlier to the beach, but the biggest party day in Norway is the day BEFORE 17th of May, so the day started at 4:30 for me. Two of the girls had the whole day planned out, with games on the beach, followed by dinner at Hard Rock Cafe. At the beach we were seperated into 4 teams and were given different tasks. Of course my team won.... Chris made me say that his team were runners up.

A funny coincidence at Hard Rock, was when we realized that the merry people sitting on the big table next to our bigger table were Norwegian too. Therefore the group became even bigger, and we felt as patriotic as ever. A highlight was when we turned down the music and sang the national anthem, followed by three 'hoorays for the 17 of May,' and finished with some classical "her blir det liv RAI RAI."(unexplainable)

Tonight is unfortunatelly our last in Bali, a beautiful island. The highlight of this day was when I flew a kite from the back of a motorbike, with Chris videotaping from the bike infront. We have to get up a the terrifying time of 5:30am tomorrow, to fly to Shanghai, with a couple of hours in KL. Our plans for China havent really been made(surprise), but we want to see Beijing and the wall. If possible, we'll sneek into Mongolia too.

Hope everybody had a nice national day back home, we're off to the "Best restaurant in Indonesia," called Queens Tandori.

Remi Elias

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