Well this must count as one of the quickest 5 weeks ever-we
feel like we’ve only just arrived at Cloudbridge, and here we are saying
goodbye! I think it’s a sign we’ve enjoyed ourselves, and we have certainly
felt very much at home.
We feel pretty exhausted at the end of our stay, but definitely
in a satisfied, feeling-of-accomplishment kind of way…I think you might say we’ve
thrown ourselves into it-we’ve not really had a spare minute!...I’ve learnt how
to use saws without losing my fingers, how to construct a wall, how to mix
cement, and how to plaster a wall….I’ve spent hours chopping wood, nailing
wood, screwing wood, cursing wood, and admiring wood…I’ve stapled chicken wire
until I have so many holes in my fingers they feel like a colander…I’ve gone on
night hikes in the rain in the hunt of frogs, and I’ve weeded saplings, I’ve
looked up 260 species names for birds and planned another crowd-funder…I’ve
planned a week-long vegetarian menu for feeding 20 kids…I’ve learnt how to make
my own bread, but learnt absolutely no Spanish (lo lamento Chicos), and I’ve loved
every minute of it! I am gona have a kickass CV by the time I get home!
We’ve had the absolute pleasure to work (and live!) with
some simply wonderful human beings during our stay here…some of the most
hard-working, passionate and dedicated people I’ve ever met, and I feel proud
to know and work with. Between us we have built a dorm (almost) in under 6
weeks, and somehow managed not to kill each other.
In fact, we’ve loved our stay here so much that we’ve
decided to come back in January! Tom (clearly having not identified which of
our weekly Pot Luck dishes were Brodie and Emma creations), perhaps naively
asked if we’d come back for a bonus week to help Anna and Alan cater for a
group of 20 vegetarian school kids...and we (perhaps naively) said yes!!! So rather
than say goodbye, we simply gave everyone a big Xmas hug, wished them Feliz
Navidad, and bade them adios until January when we shall be returning with
bells on! Those kids don’t know what they’re in for!!!! (...and I guess maybe
we don’t either!!)
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