Thursday 9th of July 2015 – A day around Fort Dauphin

In the morning we walked to the Azafady Office. We got to see lovely people and beautiful views. We had a briefing about the history of their charity and presented each other. We ate lunch with the whole team, beans and rice, the meal that would soon become a part of my daily routine. In the afternoon we went to the beach and hiked around the coast of the island.

On the way to the beach, the path was not really clear and being very intrigued by abandoned buildings, I headed towards this torn down momument. Accidentally I hadn’t realized I was stepping on recent planted crops…nothing had grown up to the ground but I somehow found myself on a crop field. Fuck. And this local woman dressed all colourful and cool started yelling at me, and I, clueless as ever, couldn’t understand a word she was saying. Thankfully one of the guides who accompanied us to the beach told me to get off and walk cautiously back on the “path”. Words can’t describe how guilty I felt, and I couldn’t even express how sorry I was.

In the night I stayed up drinking and getting to know the other volunteers I would spend 2 weeks with. We layed down and watched the stars, how incredible. It was a great.

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