Day 9: Finishing Off Uwa School and Local Community Visit

Woke up this morning feeling less delicate than certain people I could mention....hu hum..Adrian...Anyone that knows him, just ask him about the cocktail sticks in his head....I'll say no more but just think grapefruit with cheese and pineapple sticks.....now imagine Adrians' head as the grapefruit....

Felt a little bit coldy this morning so went for a walk to look at Mount Kili with Katie (we would have gone with everyone else but we took a wrong turn at a tree and lost them). The view of Mount Kili looked really amazing this morning as it could actually be seen really clearly since there is little/no cloud today.

We had breakfast and had a briefing from Elvis about the leaving celebrations tomorrow. Basically, we will need to be up, fed, washed and packed and out of the tents by around 9am so the tents can be cleared away. We now have the flag for the flag pole which tomorrow Jan will raise as part of the cememony. The day will start with a visit from the Tanzania Education Minister who will be present when we (the RM Future Builders) cut the ribbon to open the new school and mark the project complete. We (led by Jan) will then take a tour of the school with the head teacher and education minister and show them all of the work we have completed during our time at Uwa school. We have been told they will be very impressed since we have acheived far more than they expected us to. Once the tour is complete we will be addressed by speeches and singing before sitting down to a celebration lunch..

Today therefore we had to ensure that all our work was complete. This meant finishing off the borders, finshing murials, painting chairs, tables and desks and putting furniture back in the rooms.

Everyone worked hard today but i think the fact that this is the last day is beginning to get to a few people. There was definatley increased tension between a few people in the group and people seemed a lot more snappy and short with each other than usual. All in all however, everyone has got on famously with no arguements (visible ones anyway).

We stopped at 14:00 (11:00am UK time) for a minutes silence (led by Nikki) and were amazed that we were joined by a couple of classes of children from the school - this was done out of respect for us and was really touching and emotional that they would stand with us while we remember the heros back home and around the world that we have lost in our wars.

We stopped for a bit at 17:30 to take a tour of the local community. We were taken by Raymond and Elvis into two homes just around the corner from the school. It really completed the experience of Tanzania for me. There homes are very basic...typically consiting of two houses each with one or two rooms. They have very large plots of land (which they just claim) in which they grow bananas and coffee, have pigs and cows for milk/meat. The living area is like a very small lounge from a 1920s terrace house with a bedroom attached to the side. In the other "building" a stables for the cows and goats and an area where they cook and prepare food...yes in the same area. Most do not have toilets. The whole plot of land, plantations, animals etc could be "bought" for under $3,000 dollars.

A typical living room (just enough room for people to sit)

A proud mother with one of her children

We learnt that they typically receive around 3,000 Tanzania Shillings per Banana collection (around 60-80 bananas) which they sell in the market for the market rate. In return for the 3,000 shillings they could perhaps buy...cooking oil, keresene oil for the night lamps, some tomotoes and onions and some meat to feed the family....for ONE day.

The local people rarely leave the town or Tanzania as to get a world recognised education they need to send the children to Private School which they can NEVER afford to do. Children that cannot speak English by the time they go to Secondary school simply have no chance of school in ever getting there exams or moving on....the state education system and local exams have no recognition in the outside world so what is needed is an overhaul or re-recognition and integration with world wide qualifications....wouldnt it be amazing if somehow through RM and Childreach "We" could help to influence this......the schools Childreach are involved with ensure that English is taught at Primary agaes so hopefully (at Uwa school atleast) these children will have more of a chance to a good education and a chance at getting there family and family to come out of poverty...

After returning from the community village, some of us showered while others finished some paintings....we are literally complete with everything finished other than a couple of tiny last miute touch ups.... here is a picture of a before and after classroom so you can see what we have done...this is just one classroom of course. We have done 6 plus outside work, steps, volleyball pitch...

Before....just cleaning the room

Completed - even with RM colour benches....

This is it....the last day and the LAST SUPPER..... We spent the evening talking about what we had achieved and how we felt (over some beers of course). For Tom, Nikki, Freddie. Kevin and Chris - tonight was their last night as they are heading home tomorrow evening...the remaining 8 of us will carry on to the safari after tomorrows' leaving party....

Raymond and Elvis gave us a speech to thank us for all the work we had done this past 10 days. It was really heart-felt and we could tell they meant all their kind words. We presented the team with gifts that we had brought them of football shirts and some cash donations that we had collected for the cooks, security guards, driver and of course Elvis and Raymond before having a few photos of the whole team taken.

Day 8: Visit to Odangeni School then down the local pub

Was up a little late this morning as the persistent heavy rain, made getting up and scrambling out of the tent in the rain the last thing i wanted to do....so I waited until the rain stopped which was about 7:45 before getting up...it was so so muddy....will be nice on Friday night when we get another night in the hotel ahead of the safari....

It seems we still have a lot to do...with only one and a half days of work to go before the opening ceremony and party on Friday. We have a half day today since we are going to visit another school in Moshi called Odangeni School which is a school in a far far worse state than Uwa school at which we are currently working. This is a school which has recently applied for funding/help from ChildReach International...so if we manage to secure more work here though our work or hopefully with the help of RM in the future, we may return to help this school one day....

Today, we concentrated hard on completing a number of more "fun" tasks which really make the classrooms look like learning spaces rather than just rooms....this included more drawings on the walls, murials, painting the outside of the school, cleaning the windows and just making them look like school classrooms...the teachers are so so impressed with what we have done and everytime we see a teacher or community member, they just say thank you - thank you and want to hold your hand/shake your hand and show their gratitute.

After lunch, we showered and whilst people were getting ready the others continued to work until we'd all showered (which was nice as it was still daylight so I could actually see what I was washing...and the amount of dirt that seemed to be coming off me)!

We all piled in the back of the van at around 4:30 and set off to Odangeni school....the journey was cut short (after about 30 seconds) as we could not get up the muddy hill....this meant bailing out about half the people and trying again...getting a good run up this time....We eventually got underway but it was quite a hairy journey...bumpy, slidey and just a little snippit of fearing for your life as the van struggled to climb up the muddy hills to the school.

Upon arriving at the school, we were greeting with an influx of children (who had been doing exams today) who surrounded the van as we approached the school.We had some balloons and ticker tape with us which we threw at the children as we came in and they went absolutley mad for it...they loved it and kept chasing the balloons and getting us to blow them up again.

The head teacher gave us a speech and thanked us for the work we had been doing at Uwa School and then gave us a tour of the school....naturally we were followed by the pupils who seemed to just we worshipping us...it was so overwealming and at times i felt myselt welling up as the emotion was just so increadible.

The school is basically a Primary and Secondary school in one, (two main buildings but one school). The head had such amazing pride in what the school had already accompanished which was incredible seeing how run down it was - it really did have no or little facilities. In particular, the kitchen which is an old shack with a hole in the ground for a stove [PIC], toilets are just bits of tin wrapped around a make shift door and non-sanitised hole in the ground - very smelly and no real drainage. We were also shown an old store room which is now being used to teach up to 35 pupils per class. Many of the classrooms had incomplete roofs, there were holes in the walls and they looked more like disused garages than facilities in which teaching and learning could ever take place.

This is actually a classroom teaching 35 children!

This is the toilet block for all 350 children and 6 staff! (non sanitised and no proper sewerage)

After the tour, we got to spend 30-40 minutes with the children, teaching them the same games and songs that we had taught the children in Uwa...this included up playing "whats the time Mr. Wolf", "Heads Shoulders, Knees and Toes" and "Hokey Cokey". It was even more overwealming than at Uwa to be honest since the children here had not been used to visitors - you have to remenber that Uwa school is at the last stage of its Transformation so have been used to seeing volunteers around. Most of us were a bit tearful (with joy, sadness and excitment)...We all discussed that when we get back to the UK we all want to try to get RM to help support this charity officially if possible and will be making our case of getting ChildReach as an RM supported charity if we can....

On the way back from the school, we visited a local pub in Moshi and had a nice few drinks in the bar with the locals before heading back to Uwa school for dinner and drinks.

Day 7: Stepping it Up

Was up quite early this morning so spent a couple of hours writing the blog (for the last couple of days) and chatting to Nikki about random stuff. Some of the guys - Kerri, Simon, Paul and Tom went for a walk up the hill where we went the other night to see if there was a good view of Kilimanjaro in the morning...there wasn't!!

After breakfast, we divided into teams again for the days tasks. Many of us formed a conveyor belt and began shifting bricks and blocks ready to start making steps to replace the slippy/slidey/muddy slope that currently joins the upper and lower parts of the school. Once done, the boys helped to dig out the shape of the steps and then the fundies joined in and took over most of the hard graft (as we are not allowed).

The rest of the day was spent finishing off the classrooms (borders/black boards and the backs of the doors) and then starting to decorate them with appropriate educational content. We spoke to many of the teachers and the Owa School head around which content should be used in each classroom. This ranged from painting the English Alphabet in some classrooms, to maps of the world, the solar system, solar eclipses, Tanzania maps and geography information such as the water cycle and the time/clocks of the world as well as a compass.

Some off were feeling a bit stressed/tired/upset and emotional today and strangely there were several smaller groups of people working on their own (just to get a bit of "personal" space I think rather than because of being pissed off with anyone/thing in particular). I was ok today and felt quite happy with what we had accompanished so far. Just a bit tired.

Katie and I went for a nice long walk as she was feeling a bit tearful today. We walked out past the school and into the local village where every household we passed wanted to speak to us or say hello. There were some 20 something year old guys outside one little house - that shouted out "Aright Mate!". We found a little quite opening where you could see for miles and miles across all the mountain ranges...it looked like the green opening in the Twilight film! We also passed lots of people/families carrying huge amounts of bananas on thier heads. Really will make me think twice now when buying fruit...i never have tended to buy much fair trade food before but now I envow to always buy fair trade!

After lunch we continued the painting, step building and picture drawing. We continued through until dusk and then all went for showers...again it was dark when we finished - thanks to Nikki again for the Army issue glow sticks.

Evening for me was a short one....after dinner I managed to drink a Kilimanjaro beer before heading off to bed at around 10:00pm. Katie, Harry and Chris also retired early leaving most of the others up for a little. Some of the hard cores stayed up till around 1:00am and apparantly the chefs stayed up with them and got COMPLETELY drunk and were throwing up near the tents..nice.....fortunatley, those that know me know I sleep through anything so didnt hear any of it!!!

Day 6: VolleyBall and FlagPoles

Habari za asubuhi...after struggling to sleep much the night before after it being a very wet and windy night I got up around 6:30/7:00 which was early for me as i normally make it up just in time for breakfast at 8:00!! Due to amount of water I drunk the day before I also needed the toiley several times in the night....why would I write about this, well, at home its a simple thing - you get up, pop to the loo, get back into bed...job done. Here, however, you have to fish about to find your torch, find your trousers and a top (well, you dont want to get bitten by mozzies on route), open the inner tend chamber, put your muddy shoes on, grab some baby wipes, close the inner chamber, open the outer one and walk through the mud to the squat toilets with only your torch shining through the rain and mist.

We had breakfast...porridge (which i did not like and tasted like Sick....though many did like it Katie agreed with me and heaved when she tried it) followed by yummy papaya fruit and mango and then omlet, toast and peanut butter.

We split into groups again with some people painting classrooms, some painting windows and the other (which included me) gave painting a miss today and began work on the VolleyBall pitch. I got online (just) via the 3G dongle and at 600bps managed to find the dimensions of a volleyball pitch. Since this was a bit big for the area we had we went for 12mx6m which is about 2/3 normal size. We marked the area our using Jan's tent pegs reverting to basic pythagorus theory to get the angles and draw out the pitch. We dug two 3ft holes in which the volleyball posts would go and dug out a trench in which we placed planks of wood marking out the court. We had great fun playing in the hole after we had built in, pretending we were little people....Jan alomost looked normal height!!

In preparation for this we had to move around 3 tonn of sand and really felt it by the evening....i struggled to grip a cup of coffee by 7pm as my hands were knackered from holding a pick axe and shovel all day. In order to get the height of the net, we used our worthy leader Jan as a bench mark, getting the children to jump up high to see if they could pat Jan on the head....he is so tall (at virtually 2m) we are thinking of starting a new measurment system after him....so our court was 6Jans long by 3 Jans wide!!

Lunch was AMAZING today...we had a meat and vegetable pasty with chilli sauce. The food here is just so good!

In the afternoon, we were able to give some of the gifts that we had brought out with us to the children. We split the gifts (the pens, pencils, Kaleidos post-it notes and marbles) and went into each classroom (5 in all) and gave a small speech and then handed out the gifts. It was amazing to see how excited the children were to receive such simple gifts. Harry started the gift giving excercise off by letting off rocket balloons as we entered the classroom...they kids went mad for it...and loved it. One class got really scared and ran away when the ballon was released...so funny...

At the end of the day our final task was the flag pole. We dug (with the help of the local charity helpers) a 3ft hole and errected the flag pole which Katie painted in the colours of the Tanzania flag (which by the way Matt Beynon, is pronounced Tanzain..ia as Lauren said...i hate admitting you are right Laura!!!). Tomorrow we are going to buy a flag (as the school were going to get it next year when they had some money!!). On the base of the flag pole we will all write our names!

Jan and I went "up stairs" to take a photo of the flagpole. We got surrounded by children who just wanted to thank us for their gifts. After taking some photos the two of us begun playing clapping games and pat-a-cake and then they wanted to play hockey cokey again. We started to play but then they taught us a game where you all stand in a circle, one of them is "IT" and then they run round the circle until they "tag" some one...that person then joins the other run and they run round the circle. The game continues until only one person is left in the "circle". That person is then IT and has to chase everyone else until they catch someone. That person is then IT for the next round. The games really wore us out...they have so much energy and we were just running round with them for about an hour.

We stopped work about 6 and had showers....girls first of course so they get the best of the daylight hours. The solar showers that me and Nikki bought are great. We pour hot / boiled water into them and use them in the shower "room" - so much better than the bucket showers!

It was dark as we finished the last batch of showers and Nikki kindly put some army issue glow sticks into the shower block so the boys could see as we showered and washed the dirt, dust, mud and sweat off.

As we prepared for dinner at around 7:30 the rain started (early). It started as a normal rain shower but got heavier and heavier. It was real monsoon style rain and within minutes we had floods around the site. Many of the tents did not survive with Freddy's being hit the hardest and flooding most of her things. Most of the other tents were letting varying degrees of water in - I was lucky, so was Katie, Harry, Paul, Tom and Simon. After about an hour and a half the rain eased for a bit so we checked out damage to the tends. Raymond and Elvis helped Freddie and Nikki to move there stuff from the drenched tent into one of the classrooms and they set up more tents for them. They were to spend the night in the dry of one of the classrooms. We were told that if the rain persisted tomorrow, we would all need to pack our stuff and move our tents into the dry of the now almost completed classrooms.

The sense of "community" amoungst us was amazing...it felt in many ways like we had been rescued from an overseas disaster and were refugees. To me, it really does feel like we are one big family here. Everyone is so considerate towards each other and the 13 of us are now really close and everyone is just there for each other.

Once the rain stopped for the final time at around 10:00 many of us too the opportinity to return to our tents and try to get some sleep hoping the rain would hold off and we'd start to dry out... This will be an ever increasing threat now as Tanzania approaches the start of the rainy season....

Night night - dont let the bed bugs bite :-)

Day 5: Markets and Mud Slides

Habari!!

Woke up feeling so refreshed this morning....decided to skip breakfast and savour every minute of a proper bed so got up around 9:30, showered and packed up the "night" bag....it almost felt like a holiday at this point as we all headed down to the hotel pool where we spent a couple of hours swimming, sunbathing and drinking ice cold cola and banana split ice-creams...


We got collected by Raymond and the driver at around 12:30pm and were taken back to the place where we had dinner...this time for lunch... The food was okay..a combination of salad, chicken (we think), spring-roll type vegetables and a local delicassy, of which i cant rememeber the name off, which looked like spinach mixed with snot...it was actually really nice though...well you have to try these things! We also found a local Computer repair shop by the side of the road next to the restaurant.....

RM....home from home!!

From here we headed to one of the Markets to try our hand at a bit of haggling. We stopped to change up some money into Tanzanian Shillings and after some Swahili lessons from Raymond on how to say "no, not interested" or "Habana Sitaki" we went off looking for bargains. We split off into pairs and very quickly began getting harrassed to buy anything from dangly plastic bracelets to 8ft wooden sculptures - some of which looked absolutley amazing...but you have to ask..who would buy this stuff! That said I did buy a few begains...a little wooden sculture for the lounge and a couple of oil paintings...many of the others purchased nic nacs, a massia through, hats, chess sets - all at well haggled prices (thanks to the help of Raymond - our official security guard, handyman and now...personal shopper)!

We left the market and began our long drive "home" to camp through Arusha and Moshi Town. On route we passed by the "Centre of Africa" which is literally...as is says on the tin - the middle point of Africa. Now, in the UK this would probably have been represented by a gaint monument or something stunning but here...no..simply a couple of model elephants in the middle of a roundabout!

We stopped a couple of times on the way "home" to collect food and water supplies for the next few days. Whilst stopped in Moshi Town, I am sad to say that we whitnessed a fatal hit and run accident. A driver of a van didn't give way and hit a motorcyclist from the side...crowds of people surrounded the scene (no police or emergency vehicles however). The driver of the van fled and chase was given to catch him [since there is no way of tracing the driver via the license plate like there is in the UK]. The motorcyclist was taken away in a taxi but was clearly dead on impact. We asked Raymond about whether they would catch the driver...and we asked why he ran...he said (which shocked us a little) that becuase he was clearly in the wrong (by not giving way), they would have kicked him to death...it was said in a way that made it sound so "normal" to the way of life out here..it made all go bit quiet. Whilst the driver was in the wrong, it was clearly an accident and to fear his life that much that he had to run rather than wait for the police (who never arrived or probably even got called)!

Anyway....morbid scene over!

We arrived "close" to camp site at around 7:30 but due to a flash rain storm in the afternoon, our vehicle was unable to make it all the way up the mud track to the school. We left the girls in the van (for some weight) and the boys got out and pushed...for 10 minutes we pushed the van until finally it got traction...The girls cheered when we got back in the van and Freddy told us that the experience in the van was terrifying as the van slid towards the edge of the road with a sheer drop the other side of it....fortunatley us boys were victorious over the weather and we saved the day!!!! :-)

Almost at camp, the van stopped again and we were told it could go no further. A smaller van had been prepared to take us the final part of the journey but there was not room for all of us so Paul, myself, Simon and Tom walked the final mile of the journey (after being told it was only 500m)!

What a day...so many experiences wrapped into 24hrs. We were wacked! We managed some dinner which was waiting for us when we arrived back to camp and one by one we headed for the tents to sleep...a mixed night sleep as the rain kept us awake most of the night. Most of us were lucky but a few suffered leaking tents and got a little drenched in the night.

Day 4: Half day then off to Arusha

After a smaller downpour during the night, another yummy breakfast the same as day 2 welcomed us. Today we only had half a day of work so lots to be done as we were travelling off to Arusha (the main town in Tanzania) this afternoon staying in a proper hotel where we get to have proper showers, lights and air con.....amazing!!!


I felt a bit run down this morning....speaking to the others I was not the only one - Katie felt coldy and head achy and Harry also had a bit of sore throat....Some of the other guys had..."toilet trouble" also so we were all looking forward to a night of "luxury" tonight.

So...we cracked on with the work splitting into 3 teams. The girls worked on the top two classrooms finishing these off - painting new blackboards and painting the blue borders round the bottom of the walls in the classrooms. Meanwhile one of the boy teams worked to finish off the old tea/kitchen room with the top coats of white gloss and finishing off the windows frames whilst my team began prepping another two classrooms. These were both big rooms and were SO SO dusty as the builders onsite had just finished rendering the walls ready for us to paint. It took Paul, Simon, Tom, Kerry and I nearly an hour to dust the room down and sweep the floor clean(ish) of dust and dirt. We managed to get a coat of primer onto both rooms so they are now ready for us tomorrow....

We stopped just after 12:00 noon and had babywipe showers (they might not sound like much but it does get some of the dirt off)! Lunch was chicken and rice with these shredded vegetables (which tasted like the inside of a spring roll you get in a chinese restaurant) followed by yummy fruit.

After lunch, we packed up our rucksacks and headed off in the minibus to Arusha stopping briefly at Moshi Town to drop off Elvis who was going to spend tonight at home with his family - a much needed rest as he has not stopped since we arrived at camp. After a long bumpy and very dusty ride along the half-made up roads to Arusha we arrived at our hotel - the Impala Hotel. This is so much luxury compared to what we have been used to....

Once checked in we rushed to our rooms to shower in hot fast running water....I dont think I'll ever appreciate a shower and hot free running water as much as I did as i stepped out of the shower in the hotel room...its so amazing the things we take for granted at home an dafter just 4 days at camp i had almost forgotten just how good a shower can make you feel...

We met in the pool and had a swim/splash around for about an hour which was great- the water felt so fresh on our skin and we felt really clean for the first time since we arrived in Tanzania. Later, we met in the hotel bar at 8pm (after another amazing shower) and had a couple of drinks before heading into Arusha town to a restaurant that Raymond knew. We had a couple of beers and a few drinking games (well, why not) before being served dinner which was chicken, liver, grilled bananna, chips and vegetables...after a few more rounds of drinks we headed in-doors and played more drinking games (which I think Harry started) - we managed to make Drink Why You Think last for 2 hrs somehow....after a few more games including arm wrestling we retired around 2am back to the hotel and to bed...tonight actually felt like we were on holiday and the rest made us feel great (minus the almost certain hangovers in the morning).

Play time.......in Arusha

Tomorrow..Arusha for lunch and then exploring the markets before heading back to camp.

Day 3: Hardcore work begins...

After another night of terrential rain we had the usual morning ritual for showers...I say showers, we each have a large bucket of hot water (or moshi moto) where we can wash our selves down with in the shower room - basically a toilet cubical size room with hole in the ground which acts as the drain...these are only different from the toilets in that the "toilets" have squat pans embedded in the floor and the "sewage" pipes run deep in to the ground rather than just letting it all flood into the ground...seriously - they are quite hygenic..for squat toilets.... On that note, many of us have still not been to the toilet (as in a number 2)...some of the boys have given in and used the squats but the girls seem to be holding off until Saturday night when we get to spend a night in a hotel in the town of Arusha for the dream of a normal sit-down toilet.


I was last to have a shower today but even so the feeling of being "clean" or "cleaner" has never felt so good...it really perks you up for the day in a way that I never thought I would appreciate to much when at home a hot shower is never more than the turn of a dial away.

We had a nother amazingly prepared breakfast of porridge (that was a bit of a like/hate moment - with me being on the hate side) followed by lovely fresh fruit and then eggy bread and sausages...just what we need to get the day started.

By the the time we started work at 9:00am, the sun had burned most of the cloud away and it was already in the 30Cs.

We had another amazingly sucessful day today managing to get the first 2 classrooms that we started yesterday competely finished (apart from the blackboard and the paint around the borders which we'll do tomorrow). We also managed to get what was the breakfast room, stripped, dusted, 2 coats of primer, 2 coats of gloss and most of the windows painted...a really successful acheivement - we are already way ahead of where Child Reach thought we'd be.

Late afternoon once work was finished for the day was very eventful. Whilst waiting for the shower room to be free we spent a large part of the afternoon playing with the kids. We tought them the hokey cokey which they absolutely loved (around 300 kids and us volunteers all hokey cokeying!! Fantasic!! The kids were fighhting over who gets to stand next to us in the circle). This was second to head, sholders, knees and toes which was a very popular request. Harry and Katie took centre stage and ttok pride in teaching the children the macarana to which they picked up extremely quickely and continue to hum the tune throughout the evening!! Freddie and Katie also tought the children the game of "What's the time Mr Wolf, again very popular!!

After all the fun and games (we were exhausted) but were then taken on a trek by one of our guides (Raymond) to see what I believe must be one of the nicest sights tanzania has to offer...so far. We set off around 17:30 grabbing some beers on the way from the local pub (a half fallen down wooden shack, manned by the locals). Beer has to be brought up by motorbike from the nearsest town which is about 10km away and you'd be amazed how they make it in one piece with the beers literally strapped onto these pizzahut like bikes with string..Anyway, we trekked high up into the hills for around 30mins to the most amazing viweing point. You could see for miles right over into kenya!! It was absoltuely stunning, words cannot describe!! Our guide (Raymond) suprised us with choclate (what a luxury!!) and buscuits and we cracked open our beers and took in the view!! Incredible!!

As sun set we went back to base collecting a few more beers on the way ans sat round the campfire to enjoy a strange concocktion of cucumber soup (yummy) followed by pancakes and mincemeat (which was not quite the shrove tuesday experience!!). Elvis one of our chlreach reps on asite then began some campfire games which evoked many others oin the group to share their campfire games, brainteasers and childhood once past before hitting the hay. Most of us disapearing off to bed by around 21:00 as we were so worn out from the hard days work (a few people including me were also feeling a little poorly! Too much campfire smoke maybe?!)