Day 15. Thursday. 16.9.10
sweet like chocolate babe....sweet like chocolate...
16.09.2010 - 17.09.2010
E.D.P was today's morning session and for the first time I was a 'sponge presser' and the paper came out surprisingly well. We had a bit of a team tusker sing song with such classics as 'build me up buttercup' Skinny neck's presence is noted on numerous occasions...skinny neck being one of our fantastic guards with a particularly skinny neck. 
Even Stevie has started calling him Skinny neck.
Once again we are spoilt with food today and breakfast consists of not only pancakes, but sausages, eggs and everything else that is usually given to us! After a lot of talking about chocolate we are also given banana fritters with a custard chocolate sauce for our lunch dessert...you heard me...CHOCOLATE SAUCE!
Today's afternoon session was at the women's group and I'm glad we had no idea of what we were going to be doing because it was one of the hardest yet rewarding sessions so far. After another shoulder dance, we dug numerous large ditches in groups of three, to create vegetable patches for the local people. Me, Lauren and Kiera only went and chose the largest ditch! Typical! Over the next few hours we all dug basin like ditches and then filled the 'basin's' with plant mulch. Later that week, compost would be created by adding loman soil and then manure which as a mix would decay slowly when water was poured into the ditch. It felt amazing to actually finish something whilst working alongside the locals and our farewell dance was pretty emotional for me. As a celebration of our time with the ladies most of the group bought Kanga's and I bought mine from Mama Chipatti our resident women around the camp and a member of the womens group. Its a lovely stipey number and we are all going to dress tribal in our Kanga's for the last night at the elephant sanctuary tomorrow night.
I was so filthy when we got back from the village that I had to have a shower and with Nadia in the next shower along from me, another peep hole incident occurred! Very funny seeing her eye appear. :D
xxx
Posted by siangreen 13.10.2010 07:41 Archived in Kenya
