Saturday, May 31, 2014

Drinking and Cooking Stories

I’m in Seychelles and…

· I can bake anything from scratch; I make a mean pan of granola!

·  I can jump out of bed at 5:30 am and have breakfast ready for a camp full of people by 6 am

·  Kitchen duty is not my favourite duty
I was sitting down to breakfast the other morning and looked down at my meal. I realized I had made everything; the bread, the cereal and even the milk! Granted, mixing powder and water might not count as ‘making’ but still…
The new five week bunch of volunteers who are studying corals have finished up with their workshops and coral spots and they have all passed their coral exams with flying colors. Soon they’ll be joining us ten weekers with the survey work that’s been coming along well. We can’t wait for their help!
While drinking on base on a Friday night, Tina and Scott decided that they’d hike to Beau Vallon… at 1am… They took a compass with them. On Saturday morning at 9am they trudged back into base and said that after 7 hours of hiking, they’d ended up on Secret Beach! That’s all, that’s as far as they got; they must have been going in circles! They had to stash their stuff on Secret Beach and swim back to base in their clothes and shoes. They then had to get some dry bags and swim back to Secret Beach, get their stuff, and swim back to base again. Moral of their story, don’t go hiking at 1am when you’re drunk! Greg, Norma, Nimah and Orla managed to hike the six hours to Beau Vallon from Cap Ternay on Saturday. Big congratulations to them for finding the path! Laughs!
On Tuesday I went with Hazel, Alice, Antonia, Haftor, Kim and Emma to Port Launay for the last lesson of Class 5H from the International School Seychelles. We played Bingo, Jeopardy and fish-fish-shark among other games. It was a fun filled morning for all.
Friday night’s theme party was hosted by the Brazilian Brothers, Adriano and Thomas. The dress code was strict – you had to wear either yellow or green. Surprisingly everyone managed to pull it off with our limited amount of clothing we have here! There were Brazilian drinks, treats, music and of course dancing!

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