Wrapping things up...

I woke up to the glorious sight of Stephan in underpants. I lay there for about another ten minutes before deciding to get up for breakfast, and after a small bout of morning moaning, I settled down for Frosties. Om nom nom. We only had to do a half-day of work today, and the teachers made some of the people working on the other site help us to do some of the work. This meant that we had less work to do, and more time to ^ahem^ ‘rest’ and eat watermelon, after managing to teach the village children the first line of ‘in the jungle’. After work finished and we went through the leaving ceremony, we headed off to worksite number two, to say goodbye to them too. One of the habitat staff came up to our table and poured what looked like orange juice into a shot glass, then goes “Dong nai whiskey ah!” And he allowed us all to have a bit which was pretty nice of him while the teachers pretended to ‘look the other way’. When saying goodbye to all the families I can’t help but think about just how friendly they’ve been, and how nicely they’ve all treated us, especially the village kids, they helped with a load of work. Sure the work was difficult, and you seriously sweat like a pig, but it’s satisfying just standing back and looking at an empty space where there used to be a couple of thousand bricks or a huge pile of dirt and thinking, “We just did that”. It may sound stupid, but I am going to miss the work. And my mum is probably going to hold that statement against me for the next couple of months, “Jack, do the dishes because I know how much you like work”. But for the humungo amount of money we paid for this trip, it was all worth every penny. Especially the KFC stop on the way back to Ho Chi Minh. Hehe. (Jack)