Grew to Like It: Ariel

When I started this job I was so mad. = ( I wanted something in an office or a store. How was I going to help at the hippie farm anyway? Well, I moved wood. = l A tree next to the hostel with firewood stacked against it was dying. Someone had been hired to come safely cut it down. So I had to help move the firewood that was next to it. How crazy! After that was over, we spent most of the rest of the day cutting down and stripping bamboo. After Monday was over I didn't ever want to go back to that farm… but I did. How sad = ( The next day we mixed mud all day. It was a mixture of clay, sand, straw and water that they called cob. We used it to make an earthen floor for a hippitat. I thought the hippitat was pretty cute. It looked like a giant mushroom from the outside. The next day all we did was “lime wash” the hippitat. It was a little hot in the hippitat but that was better than being outside where it was raining. Working in the rain is horrible. It's all muggy, and steamy. What are we gonna do when it rains like that and we're working outside? The next two days were full of bamboo. We cut down and stripped bamboo all of Thursday and Friday. It was the most tedious work ever. The same thing over and over is never a good thing, no matter how much you can goof off while you are working. After a week of work it was much better than I thought it would be. I started to have fun while I was working. I’m glad I stayed working there. = )