Settled In

      I am finally at my home for the next four weeks! I’m about a .5 mile from the town of Kenilworth and can get free internet!!! Surprisingly, there is no free wifi anywhere! It gets expensive. The camp (Kenilworth Homestead) is incredibly beautiful, it’s a big homestead from the 1800’s with just lots of pastures with rolling hills and the boundary is carved by the merry river. Our bosses house was the original house and it’s amazing and massive! There are about 28 horses, there used to be cows but they were becoming more of a hazard than useful, there are 2 goats, 1 sheep, 1 alpaca, 2 chickens, and one massive python named Monty. Our rooms are amazing with great mattresses and really hot showers! I feel right at home going running every day by the river where you might get lucky and see a platypus and spend the evening as the sun is going down doing some yoga. People would be crazy if they didn’t like this place! The kids arrive on Thursday the 14^th and my co-instructor is Dylan from Canada he’s really nice and our personalities are very similar so we’ll be able to work well together with the kids and get them excited about playing in the bush. So the kids that will be coming are from Hong Kong and some have never seen the stars so this could possibly be really out of their comfort zone. It’s a great opportunity to really show these kids different way of life than the lives their culture forces them to live. Dylan and I are really excited to push these kids in ways they’ve never experienced. Brock’s group arrived today at Tuchekoi where I was living the past 2 weeks I’m anxious to hear how everything went for him. I already miss him so much and it’s only been one day haha... He’s doing great over here and has been having lots of fun. We’ve all been kinda ready to just start working instead of dinking around with whatever, so I’m a bit jealous of him. I’m trying to think of what else you all would want to know but I can’t think of anything at the moment. I guess since the last time I wrote nothing major has happened but just more training stuff last week we went on an overnight recky (recreation) 6.5 miles canoeing then camped then 10 miles hiking the next day. We saw Guana’s which are similar to a gilla monster just not poisonous. And we saw some Kangaroo’s! The next day we worked around camp to get things ready for the programs. The next 2 days after that we had formal training and one of those evenings I went running and saw a wallaby right on campus! It was awesome!!! They are really cool animals and Kangaroo’s are so lazy and don’t care about anything really, they are nocturnal animals so they sleep most of the day, you can walk right up to them just like the picture of Brock. Well I guess that’s about it for now kids. I’ll probably write again next week sometime updating you about how the kids are and such.