SO, I’m alive. We arrived in Belivah, where the house is, and met everyone. Manny, from Quebec, Cameron from Brisbane, and Andrew, the owner. We sat around and had dinner where Andrew informed us that he was on TV last week. When I asked why he explained that he had wiped out while surfing and gotten slapped in the face by his board so hard that it knocked him out…….yea. Then two days ago he threw his neck out and looked like a total creeper because every time he wanted to look at you he had to turn his entire body……needless to say, I see heavy machinery outside and if he’s on it, I’m steering clear. When we were served dinner we realized quite quickly that we were not going to lose any weight. It was sausage and potatoes, followed by legit French chocolate crepes.
Yesterday was our first day of work. And when I say work, I mean work. We went out thinking
that we were just going to be organizing the sheds….NOPE. We were carrying big ass cinder blocks, without gloves mind you, up and down this hill. Then, we were cleaning out the shed and I have literally never seen more useless crap. Among the treasures of endless nuts and bolts, we found a unicycle, about 27 helmets, a car engine, and a poisonous spider the size of my hand. That was probably my favorite. Manny decided it was dead and explained that there was no reason to freak out. He then proceeded to touch it at which point the spider totally flipped out and started jumping at him. Pretty priceless.
We went for a little adventure after work. We didn’t want to look like girls, and when asked, immediately implied that we were avid hikers and up for anything. Bad idea. There was no trail…..just bush land and a steep mountain covered in loose rocks. How we came out unscathed is beyond me. I literally just slid and fell from place to place until I was in a position to grab another tree to stabilize my impeccable clumsiness. We went and sat on a yoga deck in the middle of the woods. We then continued on to the dam where jill screamed snake and I almost knocked out my 2 front teeth while she laughed uncontrollably…..great friend. The hike back was much worse. Up a 75 degree slant about 2 miles…….I’m going to have a killer bum when this is all over…
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