Today we had a cheeky lie in which meant we were behind schedule by about an hour and a half, meaning most of the morning was a big rush with many people missing out on showers. BUT don’t panic, we had ours ;). Because there was always a big queue for the shower, we made a new awesome one out of bamboo and weaved palm fronds with the help of Gaza (our cool security guard) and Joseph and Alex (random dudes). The new shower is bigger than the old one, about 2x2m and tall enough for no one to be seen over the top. It has a stone floor where we stand to have lovely morning showers of half a bucket of cold water which we share with a partner and then is used to wash our dirty clothes, although they still aren’t clean because of the never ending clay. YAY. At least this is all character building ;).
As well as making the shower out of bamboo, we (with the help of the locals) also made bamboo cups by sawing off a joint of bamboo, shaving it with a knife and sandpapering it smooth.
As today was our first proper working day towards the building projects, we prepared logs for the log pathway. This basically meant using a chisel to prise the bark off each log and then carrying them on our heads up the hill to where our path will be built – this is more difficult than it sounds as, for each log that we shaved, our local helper Joseph got through about 5. Unlucky for Lydia she started her “own special method” of shaving logs and cut her hand but its fine, she’s been taken care of and is now reduced to the important one handed jobs of putting the scrabble letters back in the pot. Oh and Ellen got a blister on her thumb. Sad SAD times.
Whilst a few of us were shaving logs, another few were attempting to train the Kindergarten children ready for sports day. This meant they had to line up and then practise each race which was very chaotic as the children always want to be held or hold our hands. The rest of the team were off shopping for the next 4 days worth of food and Nick went to buy tools for the projects and Emma bought supplies for sports day.
We had changed the cooking teams over,so for dinner, the new group made spaghetti with tomato and vegetable sauce – which we ate in the daylight for a change!
Because of our late morning start today, we were banned from playing poker, so went to bed very early (8.15 LOL PARTAY ANIMALS).
So today was quite an eventful day with lots of funny moments e.g. the moment when Mrs Bowden flopped out a Marie Clair magazine to read in peace and then got bombarded by kindergartens wanting to join in and look at the pretty pictures.
Hannah says, hello mum dad and TOM and of course bertie who I know is reading this!x
Ellen says, YAY 1 YEAR JOSH I love youuu. And mumma and dad and the rest of the clan at home. xxxx
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