My lips are stained orange from trying to heal myself with turmeric and ginger juices. My throat hurts badly, it feels like I have been screaming for days, when really I have actually been very quiet. Swollen scratchy throat mixed with a bit of feeling lonely tonight, I did what we all sometimes do.. I made it a lot worse by listening to sad songs, like Lonely Avenue by Ray Charles.. and How can I breathe? by Leanne Rimes. Just kidding- I did not go as far as listening to Leanne Rimes. Anyway, I decided to take my motorbike out for a little drive by myself.. I saw lights in the sky, lights that cinemas use when its a films premier night. I followed the lights and found a crowd around gamelan players and some sort of commotion in the middle of the circle. I parked my bike and walked across the road to see what all of these people were watching. As Im now fully submersed into this crowd I can see two women in full faces of makeup, adorned in big golden headpieces, shiny, tight silk dresses, fans in hand, hair to the back of their knees, and two boys in the circle with them.. Its so crowded and everyone wants to see, I only manage to get about three seconds of full frame vision of the circle before someones head moves eagerly to see too, and I lose my sight of them. Okay, cant see the circle, so my vision and attention shifts to whats directly around me. I realize, I am...besides these two women in the middle of the circle dancing, I am the only woman here. Starting to feel weird. Vision of the circle is back, boys are coming in and out of the circle, taking their turns dancing with these women. Some are so shy they just stand there because their friend pushed them in and they are too frozen to move. This sweaty boy pushes past me, and continues to squeeze himself through the sardine packed crowd until he gets into the circle for his chance to dance. Homeboy is fully frothing (Hahahaha yes) over this woman, and she is fanning him, dancing almost close enough to touch him but not quite, snapping her wrists and hips to the beat, chin rocking sharply to each side, eyes wide open, hardly blinking, half smile. He reaches an arm around her ribs and she spins and smacks his hand with the fan. Continues to dance and the boy continues to froth. Im so confused, I have no idea what I just walked in on, why arent there any women here? I know there was a marriage ceremony today, is this like, the bachelor party? Are these Balinese strippers? Nooo.. Couldnt be? Whats going on?! Young boys are sitting cross legged on the ground watching as their fathers hold onto their shoulder or just sit next to them with a proud grin. A man comes out with a microphone, and a face painted like a lion, a red spiky wig on..... And thats when I decided I needed to get out of there and get some chocolate.
Posted on: Sun, 20 Apr 2014 19:12:22 +0000
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