Building, Chopping, & Gathering: Ariel

This week was pretty weird. Monday we made walls out of cob (with lime in it) and firewood, instead of mortar and bricks. I think it was called cord wood. It was pretty interesting. This guy named Jason is going to use it to make his whole house. That is going to look very different when it is done. Tuesday we chopped and stripped more bamboo. Again, it was very tedious. = l Wednesday was fun. There were some kids, from a summer camp thing up the road, who came down and helped us mix some cob and build a bench with it. After lunch that day me and two other interns went looking through the woods to gather moss for a living roof. Thursday we gathered moss for the living roof and made lunch. Gathering moss was almost as tedious a job as chopping bamboo, but it was easier than chopping bamboo because we didn’t have to watch out for the machetes. Friday we went back to making the cob bench. It was a pretty easy and fun week.