Well it's finished! While it's quite nice to be relaxing it was quite sad to finish yesterday when it was obvious another week wld have done the job. The skilled labourers will finish off but they say it will be 2-3 weeks.
Today (Friday) we only worked for the morning and then packed up and moved to the other house for the party. The community wanted to celebrate with us. The head man and leader of the commune and various other dignitaries were there, all the families and workers. About 50 in all I think. They had a long table and it all looked nice for us. The whole idea of a shared lunch had necessitated many discussions between myself and the host coordinator as they were worried we wouldnt like/be able to eat their food. Of course it was fine. The duck and chicken predictably was full of bones and organs we don't usually eat but tasty if you slurped the juice, but we've all fallen on love with ‘amok’ a dish which is based in coconut milk and is tasty and a little hot and has whatever meat you want.
We had fish amok, a mixed vegetable dish, grated mango salad, which I could live on, and beef lac loc which had a nice lemon pepper sauce to go over it.
All the food to us was so tasty never mind how boring the ingredients. After the meal was the dedication. For some reason it seemed hotter standing around than working in the sun.
There was much speechifying and then we all had a little cut of the ribbon and a big wooden key with the hfh logo was given to the home owner and it giving from us to all and sundry and we were off to our house for a repeat performance but without the speeches from the dignitaries who'd all disappeared by then!
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