Gurupak, Lombok

I decided to move to a tiny fishing village, Gurupak. I am so glad I did as i didnt realise it until i moved but the constant hassle from people trying to sell you things in Kuta, lombok gets to you after a while. In Gurupak there is no hassle. Its a funny place, the roads & main street kind of looks like a bombs hit it, rubble everywhere & houses that seem to have fallen down & so the families have just moved out but it is still a working fishing village & people are nice! Where i am staying has a view of the ocean & all the fishing boats, with a day bed & hammock where i can hang out & a place for me to do yoga over looking the sea, its v.nice! The family also keep feeding me massive banana pancakes x2 every morning at 6.45,7am! I actually like to practice until 9am but felt that i couldnt not eat the pancakes & let them go cold, so i find myself so full by 7.15 & only having done 40mins of practice! Oh well its a good test at me been flexible & not stuck to my routines! The family are so lovely & invited me to eat with them today. It was the first proper Sasak (Lomobok) meal i have had since been here & it was lovely, fish curry! It was so nice to be invited to eat with them & reminded me of how Indian people are!

Sadly whilst i was staying the town, a sad event happened & I found myself in the midst of a funeral. A young teenage boy (18 i think) committed suicide by taking animal poison & nobody really new why, except he had been a little depressed for the last month. The house where the boy lived was opposite where i was staying so it was impossible not to hear the crying & sadness all around the village. As Lombok is a muslim island the boy was in the house for people to pay respects to & then within 24 hours the funeral happened & we watched as he was carried up the street wrapped in bamboo & some material. It was a sad day & i watched the parade of mainly men who carried him to the funeral site. It was interesting to watch how people were able to then get on with their lives & still take tourists out on the boats to surf etc, life just keeps ticking on i guess.