First off Lily and Eion’s birthday party was so lovely! Ku de Ta was amazing. We enjoyed cocktails while watching the sunset over the Indian Ocean, the evening progressed to rum and coke pool side at our hotel into the wee hours where we met the new batch of hostel guests.
Grant, a fireman from Southampton and Ryan from Ottawa. Yay another Canadian!!!… I thought.
The next day we bid fare well to Kevin and Nick (off to Thailand) while Grant, Ryan, a new guy Roberto (from Italy) and I hired a car for an 8hr drive to the second largest volcano in Indonesia. Well about 20 mins into the car ride I realized I was in hell. Ryan, my fellow Canadian turns out to be the biggest a**hole to grace this earth. First off, I don’t think he could go 4 words without using the f-word, next, his blatant arrogance and derogatory comments of Indonesian life and their impoverished country were not lost on our driver (who spoke enough English to get the gist of his rant), last, was the disgusting “self-pleasuring” hand gestures he made to all the passing by Indonesia women on their scooters. When we stopped for fuel I asked the driver if we could leave him at the petrol stop as a semi-joke.
Despite my growing hatred for the Canadian the rice fields and volcano where amazing. Plus it was really eye opening to venture inland into Bali and see the real way of life for these individuals.
Tomorrow I leave for Singapore (not a moment too soon or I may kill Ryan). Lesson learned that day, not everyone born in Canada should get to call themselves a Canadian.
Update on Ryan- Today by the pool he informs me that he had his boss “laid him off” during for this holiday so he can get unemployment from the Canadian Gov’t while he’s here. Lovely!
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