A Young American in the East: Welcome!

For those who are not up to speed on my latest excursion, lets catch up!
I am in Bali, Indonesia, just south of Ubud doing a workaway exchange at a fantastic and unique place called Taman Petanu Eco Neighborhood (TPEN). I am helping the team create their workaway program via trial, as I am the first volunteer. I am helping to develop an eco-tourism account for future guests, via visiting lots of fun things in the region. I am teaching the staff how to cook western recipes, and eating them. I am having an amazing experience.

Taman Petanu is a neighborhood comprised of 20 plots, about half with finished homes, the rest in progress, a bio-pool, the first public bio-pool in the world and an entire neighborhood of gardens full of both food and flowers. It is a completely sustainably run and built neighborhood and operates solely on filtered rain water. It is environmental conscious, it is beautiful, it is both boiling hot (temperature) and very, very cool (social definition).

TPEN is a part and home to Alam Santi Design, where many of my "coworkers" spend their days working on building projects, materials and working towards keeping everything eco-friendly and sustainable. This entire place is thanks to a woman named Petra. She is originally from Canada, but has been living here for over 30 years and is kick ass. She has 4 children, a beautiful house, tons of experience and more ideas than even I come up with; except she usually executes them.
This is here website. Read up!

I am staying at "Casa Coolio" (check the pics) a group of houses, including Petra's, all beautifully designed and within an abundance of nature and wildlife- including monkeys, bats, lizards, dogs, cats (and unfortunetely as of Sunday, officially bedbugs. So I have been relocated from my suite to one of the guest rooms in Petra's main house. Very lovely- all is well.)

Enjoy some pics!