Saturday, 25 August 2012

who inspires me most

The person who inspires me most is my mother.
There are lots of reasons why she inspires me, but one of the biggest reasons is because ten years ago there was the Bali bombing and her business went down, but my mum didn't give up. After a long 1 and a half years of working as hard as possible, the business started to run better then ever .My mum had a big responsibility for more than 30 horses, 40 staff, 5 dogs, 1 monkey and me. 
My mum is a great horse rider and instructor. She treats animals with a lot of love and passion. She educates people, how to treat animals in a good way. 
She also started a project on Gili Trawangan with a woman named Delphine, to help the mistreated horses on the island. My mother showed the dockar drivers, how to disinfect wounds, treat eye problems,cut their hoofs and a lot more.
My mum inspires me for her passion towards helping animals in need. I hope to find a passion for something as meaning full as helping others.

                                                               this is why my mum inspires me    

Thursday, 9 August 2012

MY HOLIDAYS

This holidays my mother and I didn't go for holidays, because my mom sold her business and our house. Over the holidays we moved to our new house in Pererenan. I really love the house, not only because it has squirrels in the back yard, it also takes only 10 minutes to go to the beach. I'm very happy, that we found this house, as my mum, our monkey Whoopy and our 4 dogs love it just as much. Now that I live really close to the beach, my mum got herself and me brant new bikes. Since we have new bikes, we walk our dogs every morning with the bikes.
July 14 was a skate competition at Elavate skate park, the competition started at approximately 10 am and finished at 11 pm. At the end of the day there where 3 mini comps. 1 competition was best trick, 1 competition was vert and 1 comp was street.
I came 1st in best trick and also in vert and then came 3rd in street. It was a fantastic day and I hope that  I will have a fun day like that again soon. 

But my holidays where not just fun and games, as my best friend Joshua moved to England to go to a boarding school, because his mum thinks the education is not good in Bali. I know Josh since a long time and now, that he is gone, I really see how boring my life is. I lost so many friends moving away from Bali in the last few years.
 
                                                 I can't wait until my next holiday



Wednesday, 8 August 2012

work experience

DAY 1 : Just arrived in Pemuteran after a 4 hour drive. I was so tired after  that long drive but I still needed to work. That day I started to help with the turtle hatchery. At Reef Seen in Pemuteran they have 4 pools for turtles of different ages. There is one turtle named Buddy in one pool. He is 8 years old. Then there are 3 more pools for small turtles. These turtles are between 1 to 6 month old. I helped to wash the pools. Afterwards I helped with gardening.
In the afternoon I just helped around with things that needed help,then I had a early night, as I was still tired after the week at super camp.

DAY 2 : I woke up at 6 :30 am and prepared the Reef Seen Boat. This boat can take 14 people. It has a roof deck, which is only prohibited during heavy rain. It also has a marine toilet at the back of the boat. After preparing the boat,  I finely had something to eat. After breakfast I helped with the laundry. That day there where 5 people who wanted to buy and release turtles. So I took the turtle babies out of the pond and joined the hotel guests to release the baby turtles at the beach. Then I helped prepare the suits for the divers before lunch. At 1:30 pm I went diving at close encounters, a diving spot in Pemuteran . Now I could see diving from a different point of view, I could see that you don't just look at the pretty little fish, you must navigate around the area. After the dive I helped to hang up the suits and Bcd's of all the divers.


DAY 3: Same rutine wake up at 6 :30 am prepared the boat for starting at 7:30 am and had something to eat. After breakfast, I went snorkeling and picked up rubbish in the sea. Luckily this time of the year there was not too much garbage around. I went and helped with the turtle hatchery there where at least 10 turtle hatcheries that morning, what was great to watch. Afterwords I helped at the reception to take bookings for the next day. After the guests came back from a boat trip from Mengangan Island at 4 pm, I helped to unload the boat and washed the suits, Bcd's and hang them up.  


DAY 4 : I woke up at 6.30 am and helped again, to prepare the equipment for diving. Then I got on the boat to Mengangan with the guests.  First we dived eal garden then coral reef and I saw so many cool things, like a white tip reef shark, a turtle, a leaf fish, a stone fish, a frog fish and a huge lion fish. Then after being at Mengangan for 3 and a half hours, we left and when back. After arriving at Reef Seen, I helped to get all the stuff of the boat. After that I worked in the kitchen, to help prepare food for the guests.

DAY 5: I woke up and 7.30 am, so I missed the early boat to go out. I started at 8 am to help cleaning out the turtle tanks. Then I went to snorkel for garbage again. Later on I helped with gardening, cleaning rooms and washing regulators. Before we left Pemuteran, I helped to feed the turtles.

All in all, I had lots of fun and learned a lot.

SkateLab, Atlantic Beach Florida

One of my favorites because it has all things I need street and vert.

Black Pearl Skate Park, Cayman Islands
The world of vert has nearly every transition that is possible to make. 

Louisville Extreme Park
This skate park is not only amazing but the scenery is just as good.


Marseille Skatepark, France
I love this skate park because it has the longest  snake run in the world.

Stoke Plaza, Stoke-On-Trent, England
An amazing outdoor street park with all different types of stares, boxes and ramps,it is a fun place to have a good afternoon.

VANS Skatepark, California
The most amazing skate park all different type of obstacles and with basket ball rings in the skate parks.



Kona Skate Park, Jacksonville, Florida
 awesome bowls all over the hector of concrete skate park,with vert and street combine.

Amazing Square Skate Park, Japan
A wired skate park , wired because all the obstacles are made of old wood so it is much harder to do and land most of the ticks skaters do.

Lake Cunningham Regional Skate Park, California
one of my favorite skate parks because all of my favorite skateboarders have been to this huge hector of amazing skate park. 

woodward skatepark
the most amazing skate park in the world this is not only a skate park it is also a camp. It is a 12 hector peace of land with 7 of the best skate parks.It had 3 indoor and 4 outdoor skateparks, not only are there skate parks but there is one of the biggest gymnastic parks and it has 4 paint ball fields and go-cart tracks and a 4 star  restaurant. All is at this one camp.

Since I can remember it has always been my dreams to go to all these skate parks, especially to go to woodward skate camp. I hope, one day that I can fulfill my dreams.