Day 5

19-10-09

This morning I was awoken by the loud cries of our cockerel. I thought to myself, fantastic - what a great way to wake up every morning. I then checked the time on my phone and it was quarter past three in the morning! Silly incompetent cock! We had a late start anyway today as we haven´t officially started working on the projects. We had to meet at 10am at the community hall this morning and we took a brief tour of the houses we´ll be working on and the place where we´ll be doing the teaching workshops.

I thought the house that me and Mille are staying in was basic but some of the houses we looked at that we´re going to be working on weren´t even fit for animals. Some of them didn´t even have 4 wooden walls, but some walls were plastic sheets or fabric! One lady didn´t even have a proper floor and was using large collected plastic signs to form more stable flooring for her ´house´. A lot of them you could barely class as shelter, and the hygiene was just awful; swarming flies, lingering bad smells, no means of cleaning. I can´t wait to start building to help them!

After our tour we returned to our houses for lunch. Just before, I nipped our into the back garden for a numero uno, and to my dismay there were lots of flies flying around the toilet bowl, so I desperately wafted them away, swatted the one I could, and poured water down the toilet to take care of any others down there. I quickly did my business and to my horror I seen a fly, fly out from the toilet bowl! I ran back inside to Mille and whinned: "Milliiiiie! I´m really scared I´ve got a fly up my fanny!"....she of course found this hilarious and stated if that was the case, I´d know about it. Lets hope she´s right!

Time for bed! Lets hope that cockerel isn´t feeling too lively in the early hours again!