Our roving reporter Michaela, third from right
Since our last update on the 11th March, we’ve been hard at work on the water system for our village finishing the main cement water tank and digging more trenches to pipe the water down to the village. But we’ve also managed to pack in some amazing cultural and creative activities: we held an art afternoon and encouraged the whole community to get involved with the painting, drawing, model-making, pasta jewellery and string bracelets. The afternoon was a great success and it was great to see everyone get involved and also get to know the village better.
On Saturday night we hiked up Cerro Juan Sappo , and managed to encounter an hour of torrential rain – completely unheard of in the dry month of March! Mercifully, the skies cleared and we camped at the summit under a blanket of stars. Later that evening we heard voices in the darkness – as they came closer we realised that it was the Fieldbase team, who were visiting on their road trip and had arrived early to surprise us.
Next morning, after a mountain-top breakfast of fresh melon, we descended back to the village and roped Julian and Ross into a game of football. Before they left, we gladly received our blog messages and bough some treats from the Raleigh travelling chocolate shop.
Unfortunately our time in Los Tololos had come to an end and it was time to say adios to our families, which was extremely emotional for many of us. The entire community came out to say goodbye, and it was awful to leave – we would all have easily stayed for another phase! Thank you to our PMs, Don Ramon, Don Chico and Brigado for allowing us to come to Los Tololos and helping us make such a difference.
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ReplyDeletehey babe.
went out last night did the usual winchester thursday night, lots of fun dancing with al green, which attracted a fat bar man who was on his night off, had a tongue peircing, gross. at the end of the night he came up to me and did the classic line 'if i had more confidence i would ask for your number'
i gave him my number for the banter.
lucy thomas got off with bash o my jesus!
not sure about thursdays i dont do them often, might make a feature of them before lydia goes away though.
ok in other news, dee.
he didnt reply to my text about a second date, so i sent him a text that said 'no reply? dont worry i get the message. your loss dee'
lush, thank god i didnt know him that well and i can pretty much garentee i will not see him again, unless we go to the same uni. that would be hillarious!
i am just having some yummy wessex tandori curry from yesterday for breakfast, so student, so yum and i need to do work now,
hope your having an amazing time
miss you xxxxx