Week 4 - It is an amazing thing waking up to the sound of all animals in the jungle including the Gibons. We also always knew the morning was sneaking up on us when the cock started singing 5 in the morning. Week 4 was adventures! We got the opportunity to do jungle treks, klotok trips up river, rice blessing. There are not enough words to explain this amazing place. The leaches during the jungle trek was a bit uncomfortable, especially as they started sucking blood from us. I did wear my leach socks (that we got from Felipe and Corinne, thank you very much!) and that did help:) The experince was fantastic though. The close encounter with the spider was Grahams achievement. I have to add the the locals had removed the poison prior as a precautionay measure during the rise planting. We did also discover a Scorpion nest when building the toilet. Scary...
In addition to building the dam and the only community toilets in the village we held english lessons for the children. Graham was a very popular teacher and all children was cheering hurray when he came into the classroom. He also went under the name "The Giant" in the village. I did try on a bit of teacing myself. My lesson was about litter and trying to communicate the benefits of not throwing rubbish in the river and everywhere in the village. Can admit it is complicated with no infrastruture for waste in place at all. We had to ourself wash us and all our cloths in the river everyday. It did not feel great seeing all the washing powder going downstream...
We has a farewell ceremony the day before we left the village. It included dancing, drinking rice wine and recieving blessings. It was loads of fun but tiring. Graham did some funky african dance moves with his notorious hip twitch. Think he forgot the theme of the evening. Maybe he got himself confused with a night out in Essex as well, not sure where it came from...
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