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First week on paradise!

The first week has gone! Now just remaining 5 weeks on paradise...

I'm very glad to see that all the members of my team looks very nice. We are 12 volunteers, a coordinator (with girlfriend), 4 indonesian carpenters and Ibu Opit, the kitchen's queen!!! There's 3 couples on the group, but at the beguinning it seems not a problem. All the people on the group has been adapted perfectly to the jungle's conditions, and all of us are really happy (and that's really good!). We've been all the week cementing, sawing, chiseling... and looks that it will still be the same one or two more weeks... It has been raining everyday. Sometimes just a minutes, sometimes all day and all night long... but it's fine. By chance, we are working under the roof, because another volunteers before us start building the place where we are living and working now. When it will be finished, Orangutan Foundation will use this houses like a base camp on the jungle to start reintroducing young orangutans to the jungle. At the moment there's no orangutans there, but when it will be finished, a group of indonesian people will come here to live in and taking care (just a little bit) of the orphan orangutans that will live on this jungle on the future. Now this orangutans are on the care center, waiting to be enough adults to live "by their own" (at the beguinning will be impossible, because all of them have been living in cages in the care center since the moment that someone kill her mother. Killing her mother, the baby orangutan will never learn all the information that the old generations of orangutans habe been teaching generation after generation... information like what's good to eat and what is dangerous, when eat something and when not to eat it... or, for example, something as simple as "never touch a snake". This kind of knowledges the orphan baby orangutans will have to learn it bi his own, but it's the only way. There cannot be schools for orangutans... of course!

In this camp, indonesian people will give them a little bit of food every day, and also, the kind of basic medical assistance (just in case) and a few "human care"that they need, because they have been living with humans since become orphans, and provably now we are the most similar to "her mother", and it would be a litthe bit depressing for them lo let them by his own in the middle of nowere, alones... so the best way is let them free but with the possibility of human contact if they want... just the same that I saw in Camp Leakey last year... (and I'm really waiting to see and live again...)

Well... provably next week I'll have another rest day, to come again to the internet cafe and show you some of my pictures. For the moment, I think will be a little bit boring just see people working or playing cards, but the best pictures will come soon... Camp Leakey's waiting!!!

Also, I'll try to show more pictures with me... (I can't promise...)

Have fun!

I hope to be able to come here on the future, and see again this build finished and with some orangutans around it.

Tomorrow's the day!

We're so excited. Tomorrow's the jungle's day!

Normally on the first week of the programme, the volunteers spend a few days in Camp Leakey (the real paradise on the earth is here, into the Borneo's jungle... a place surrounded by the jungle. No cars, no motorbikes, no noises... only the sound of the jungle, the sound of the heaven. I've been there last year, and i'm so excited and frustrated at the same time (because I was expecting to go there tomorrow... not in 2 or 3 weeks...) But "no problem, my friend!".

Today we went to Yayorin. Yayorin is an indonesian NGO who try to teach the local comunities in sustainable ways of farming, and teaching them how to live in harmony with the environment, trying to avoid de constantly destruction of the jungle. Yayorin's people is a very friendly and smily people. It's nice to hear them talking. I was in Yayorin last year, and now I can ensure that they has grow a lot in just one year. It's good to see that a lot of small efforts can make a dream come true.

Tomorrow morning, after breakfast, we'll take a klotoc (typical indonesian riverboat) and we'll go to our next weeks home... in the middle of the paradise... under the heatest sun and the heaviest rain... that's the place I want to go, that's the place I would like to share with you... it's something magic. I have no words to explain how powerfull the jungle is inside me. Will wou want to come with me next year?

Wellcome to Pamgkalan Bun!!!

After aproximate 30h flying (and waiting on the airports for connections), Yesterday I'd arrived to Jakarta, Indonesia's main city. This morning I took the last flight, and now I can properly say that I have arrived to the jungle. I can feel the jungle in the humidity of the air, in the drops of the rain, in the color of the wood-houses, in the face of the indonesian childs... I'm in the jungle. Is just after a few hours sailing, and I still have to wait one more day... I've arrived one day earlier, because the D-day will be tomorrow. Tomorrow I'll meet the rest of the group, and after tomorrow morning we'll go to the missed jungle... I can't wait!

Last day before to go!

This is the last day.
Everything is packed, everything is ready.
I'll miss my family, my friends, a special girl who's flying on my head... but I really want to go back to the paradise. Back to Borneo. Will you meet me there?