day in the life

tuesday was our first real day of work. for the first few hours we fulled the invading weeds and grass from around the baby trees. we found a variety of pests including the ever fearsome blackberry, wasps, spiders, and a baby slug named Jim.
We took a break from this for an early lunch and for a few people to recover from their plant allergies. After lunch we did a bit more "releasing" (a kinder word for weeding) and then headed off to build a trail.
This trail is for the elderly so one popular phrase we adopted was "can an 80 yr old walk it?" We tried to make it work. The work is pretty intense and tiring but it is so rewarding.
after our hard work we headed off to a waterfall. we played and swam, it was FREEZING!. everyone was jumping off this one waterfall and I was terrified to try it. But, if Adriana could face here fear of water and swim across the lake, I could jump off a waterfall. Cass and I held hand and off we went! It was exhilarating. The David Teoh, who, had never been in a real river before jumped off a 7 meter waterfall. His motto? "if a kiwi can do it an aussie can do it!". After that we hiked back to the bus and headed home.
For dinner we had mexican! (burritos really). I wasnt in the cooking group, but I helped out baceuse Nefoo and Xuan had never cooked mexican food beffore. We made burritos and they were excelent. We had lots of people try refried beans, they were a hit! PB+J and refreid beans....we will show the aussies some afmerican stuff afterall. After dinner we played a round of a charades game called hats.
once the sun set we headed out for a glow worm walk. we started walking the waywe had gone the other night when we got lost. we took a turn though, and headed down this crazy hill that was coverd in grass that was dsoaked from the earlier rain. This was by far the steepest cliff I have ever been down. We slid all the way down on what was a 45 degree slope or worse.
It was intese and painfull and really really fun. Ojce we got to the glow worms it was unreal! It was a fairy wonderland that looked a lot like the movie avatar. It was amazing. We were hiking in the pitch dark looking at tiny blue dots everywhere.
The trip has been amazing
Until next time