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We are currently on another island called Sulawesi. We flew from Flores to Bali for 1 night, then here.
The valley we are in is called Tana Toraja, witch in the local language (not Indonesian) means land of the hillbillys! The local people have huge funeral ceremonys and sacrifice’s lots of water buffalo! they dress up in these really cool beady outfits and sing and dance. The houses they build are really amazing too, they have huge curved rooves and ornate wood carvings. There are quite a few tourists here. There is also amazing plants and animals: as many dragonflys as there is flys in Australia, at least triple the amount of butterflys and millions of frogs! Some are smaller than than the fingernail of my littlest finger, and some bigger than my hand!There are lots of Cacao trees and Cofee bean trees too.
Because there are mainly French tourists around here the local kidds you meet say ” halo, bon-bon?” (whitch is “halo, lolly?” in French) so then you give them a little tofee thing and they go mad and shout: DUA, DUA!!!! withch is Indonesian for “TWO, TWO!!!” its cute. Yesterday was natinal independence day for Indonesia. There was lots of marching in the street and people celebrating!
We have been in Flores for the past 12 days . On the first we went to an island called Rincha ( 1 of the only 2 islands in the world were the Komodo dragon exists) . We saw about 10 of the dragons they where quite scary, but very lazy! We then made our way up to Bajawa were we went on a tour and saw how they grow cacao bean coffee bean and vanilla bean! It is a very mountainous place.Yesterday we climbed a mountain called Kelimutu.Up the top were 3 different colored lakes, one was bright aqua! The other 2 were brown and dark black , in the rainy season they can also be red! Tomorrow we fly back to Bali then to Sulawesi.
We arrived in Bali and went to our hotel and chilled out for a day. It was hard adjusting to the weather (it was raining when we left Australia) every day so far I have worn a T-shirt and shorts and still I have been hot. On day 2 my cousin and aunty arrived.
After staying in Bali for a few days we went by plane to an island called Lombok then by boat to a tiny little island called Gili Air (ay-ere) it’s only 1.5 km long and 1 wide and there is no cars and only 800 people (not including tourists). We went on a snorkeling tour around the other two mini islands we stopped on an even smaller island than Gili Air for lunch. There was a turtle sancuary there and you could pay the equivaent of 10$ to free a baby turle into the ocean, so we did and we named him Yipes, he was sooooo cute and we got to hold him and pat him then watch him swim away!!! Also on the snorkeling tour we saw fully grown turtle swimming around deep down in the sea, we were alowed to pat it if we could hold our breath long enough to reach the bottom. After our stay on Gili Air we all went back to Lombok for 2 days after that we said bye to our cousin and his mum.
In the past 3 days we have benn staying at a nice little hotel while dad climbed Mt. Rinjani (Indonesia’s 2nd highest mountain, 3,726m)
I will post some photo’s soon.
byeeeeee!!!!
We recently did a test about what copyright is and how to use it. Mrs.C asked us to write down what we think students should know about copyright law.
here’s what I think:
I think copyright is an important law, from my understanding it protects thr right of artists writing stories, writing and singing songs, drawing pictures, taking photo’s and more. Some of these people choose to share their work with the public, but some put copyrigt on their work so that the public can not use it unless they put the information in diferent words and give credit to the person who did the hard work.
I think all students should learn about this if it applies to them otherwise whats the point?
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