Despite the relief of the oppressive heat, three straight days of afternoon rain makes for an extremely restless Devin. Thus, around 4:30 I was fully ready for a trip into Ubud, despite having already made a journey there during my now regular morning walk. I reasoned that I needed cash as an excuse and decided that maybe I would do some shopping or grab a beer at...

My first full day in Bali was positively overwhelming. Jacinta, my housemate and a volunteer midwife from Australia, has been here for 8 months, so she took me for a tour of the clinic, and then rode into Ubud on her motorbike to get lunch and do some shopping. The first thing I noticed was that I don’t know a lick of Indonesian. Despite studying for weeks before I...