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on sunday morning i wake up early.
i prepare myself for the day ahead of me. its going to be strange.
i arrange a ride to the same small town i grew up in, escaped, all those years ago.
i need to get ready.
in the bathroom i look in the mirror. my normal self looks back. i don't look tired. my eyes are not red. i do not look distressed or distraught ( Read more... ) -
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it was just as we were leaving when the phone rang.
after the mad scramble to find mittens, scarves, keys, we were finally bundled against the cold, ready to tear out the door and race off to the play we'd forgotten about until the very last minute.
i laughed as my my phone buzzed obnoxiously from the coffee table where, after all the last minute ( Read more... ) -
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Amy said i look like a ghost today, after having been so sick.
tonight i feel like one.
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January 19, 2009
We are sitting outside in the night time breeze, sprawled on the office steps, Lene and I. We are tandem typists. Bathed in the blue glow of our laptop screens, we pause only occasionally to swat away the biting insects attracted to them. Truth be told, the bugs here aren't nearly as bad as i had anticipated. No repellant needed, so far, and ( Read more... ) -
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Saturday January 17, 2009
a brief synopsis, two weeks late.
Coming to the end of my second week here at C.R.O.W. And it has been busy, busy, busy!
We do feeds for all the animals here twice per day, chopping up loads of fresh fruit, veggies and chicks for the Hadedas and raptors. There are vervet monkeys, two troops of baboons, a wildebeest, ( Read more... ) -
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Tuesday January 6, 2009
Drinking a cider, lying in bed typing this. Most of the other volunteers have gone to bed and i am the only one left still up aside from amy who says she's feeling unwell tonight and not able to sleep.
I fell asleep tonight immediately after supper, exhausted from the heat and the days work, and still recovering from ( Read more... )
