{"id":391,"date":"2007-08-20T23:15:23","date_gmt":"2007-08-20T23:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/wp\/?p=391"},"modified":"2013-03-07T17:47:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T01:47:37","slug":"bali_intern_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/bali_intern_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Bali Intern Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A typical day during my first two weeks of a design internship with <a href=\"http:\/\/johnhardy.com\">John Hardy<\/a>, the bamboo company and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kulkulschool.com\/\">Kul-Kul School<\/a> near Ubud in Bali, Indonesia, August 1-14, 2007.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-001.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"View from inside a tent\" \/><br \/>\nWake up with the sunrise around 6am, get out of tent.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-002.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"379\" alt=\"A man, John Button, and a compost toilet with two seats\" \/><br \/>\nMake my way down to <a href=\"http:\/\/nuke.johnbutton-permaculture.net\/\">John Button<\/a> (Australian permaculturalist living on-site for five weeks)&#8217;s place to take advantage of his composting toilet.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-003.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Pathway through semi-jungle and view from below of a bamboo home\" \/><br \/>\nHead back to my in-progress guest home along the terraced path.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-004.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"View of inside of unfinished bamboo home and tray with breakfast on floor\" \/><br \/>\nGet some reading and\/or contemplation in until Ibu arrives with breakfast: rice, tahu (tofu), tempa (fried been curds), tomato, cucumber, fish, sayur (vegetables, usu. spinach and bean sprouts) and teh (tea).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-005.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" alt=\"Looking down a corridor of bamboo polse that is the inside of the bridge, view from bridge down river\" \/><br \/>\nHead down the hill and across the new Kul-Kul School bambu bridge over the Ayung river&#8230;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-006.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Bamboo pavilion for bike storage and three women walking down a road\" \/><br \/>\n&#8230;to where I park my bike every night, which I ride up the short hill, passing some incoming workers at 7:45am.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-007.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Roof covering many motorcycles, view across ground of bamboo poles everywhere\" \/><br \/>\nArrive at the bamboo factory just up from the river.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-008.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"A man sits in front of a stick model of a building, a foot with some bamboo pegs and a knife on the ground\" \/><br \/>\nCheck in with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aldosculpture.com\/\">Aldo Landwehr<\/a>, designer, and work with him on a new building model. Then four hours learning to work bamboo with a knife, such as whittling pins for construction.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-009.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"A hand under a tap, rice in a palm leaf\" \/><br \/>\nWash hands at noon for the provided lunch: nasi bunkus.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-010.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"A clipboard with sketches of a building elevation, a hammer and saw and knife\" \/><br \/>\nHead back home to check on progress of construction. Draw up plan and dimensions for next stage: windows. Get some hands-on time in with the workers installing the new pinned bambu floor and digging the ventilation out underneath.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-011.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"259\" alt=\"Outisde and inside view of a new three story bamboo building\" \/><br \/>\nHead back to factory to do some quality control rounds with Aldo, such as checking on the new office progress.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-012.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"People walking on a pathway in the terraced jungle, four workers posing for a photograph\" \/><br \/>\nAfternoon meeting of the Kul-Kul School team and a tour of the grounds to assess progress and ideas. Check in on my team of workers at the house again.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-013.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"A naked man (me) kneeling by the river between two large boulders, food on a palm leaf\" \/><br \/>\nOfficial end of work at 5pm. Head down to the river with the locals for a bath. Dinner arrives around dusk at the home.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-014.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"260\" alt=\"Book cover and drawings on paper\" \/><br \/>\nGet in some reading (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jenkinspublishing.com\/humanure.html\">The Humanure Handbook<\/a>) and idea sketches (bamboo steadycam?).<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/images\/journal\/bali-day-015.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"180\" alt=\"Two men in front of candlelight, view looking up at palm trees and star-filled night sky\" \/><br \/>\nRegular &#8216;step-by-step&#8217; English\/Indonesian 8pm session of candles, coffee, fried bread and a dictionary with my friends and workers Pak Tono and Pak Nyoman. By 9:30 brush teeth and head back to the tent .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A typical day during my first two weeks of a design internship with John Hardy, the bamboo company and Kul-Kul School near Ubud in Bali, Indonesia, August 1-14, 2007. Wake up with the sunrise around 6am, get out of tent. Make my way down to John Button (Australian permaculturalist living on-site for five weeks)&#8217;s place [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3,5,74],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1237,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/1237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffwerner.ca\/testa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}