Four weeks, I am now in a routine and oddly feel at home. I get up at 06.30, eat cornflakes with evaporated milk and a banana for breakfast. Either salvaging; chinking bricks, collecting river rocks (a common material for Indo houses) and shifting rubble and timber into piles. Or, working on a deconstruction team scratching my head deciding on the safest way to pull down a house. Lunch times normally include rice and fish and the same for dinner. I wear the same dirty clothes, wash with rain water from a bucket and use a hole in the ground for the toilet. On an evening I talk crap with fellow volunteers and play the odd game of ‘Shit Head’ or ‘Speed’. Usually in bed (airbed) by 22.00.
If I was to read what I have just written a month ago I would wonder what the hell I was doing – it’s really hard to explain the experience of working on the project. And so, Marc the project director asked if a group of us could make a day in the life video for HODR – it explains the whole thing a lot better…
