Highlights from my home in Australia…
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- Living in a one room church with purple on every wall
- Being greeted by a lizard over a foot long the first night
- On the first night sleeping on pews to get away from the bugs
- Waking up with a soar back due to sleeping on the pews
- Feeling like you are going to sweat yourself to death from the heat
- Finding 3 huge spiders in the church while sweeping
- Having to catch the jumping spiders in containers so that teammates could take them outside…not my first choice
- Cleaning out boxes of stuffed animals and sometimes finding a mouse or two
- Scarring teammate Jeanne up onto a chair with the baby lizards we found
- On the second night being woken up by a huge, fury, brown spider crawling up my leg (some say they are poisonous)…i’m still alive
- On the third night setting up my tent inside the church…I think you get the idea
- Being able to scroll through the rainforest on an everyday basis
- Clearing the area in order to learn countryline dancing from an aboriginal woman…Marine
- Taking a middle afternoon stroll to the gorge to cool off…about a 10 minute walk or just in your back yard beyond the rainforest
- Learning about the aboriginal culture along with other aborigianls on movie night (a lot of the culture and living tactics were lost due to the history of the Europeans)
- Hearing birds in the trees that sound like monkeys
- Being woken up in the middle of the night either by the mouse we couldn’t catch or the huge lizard looking for her babies
…it’s only been 6 nights!!!!!!
