miércoles, 24 de abril de 2013


The second day we decided to make a trip to the beaches where we were going to teach the homeless how to collect and eat coconut (I have to admit that it was Ray’s idea). So we woke up early in the morning and started walking to the beach that was very far, the idea was to walk and when we spot a homeless to make him part of the “lesson”, so when we arrived we got like 20 homeless. Ray was disappointed because he wanted more people to go… but 20 people it’s a very good start (in my opinion). We arrived just at lunchtime and started cutting branches of trees (we didn’t want the tree to die, that’s why we didn’t cut down) and when we had enough wood we started making the stairs with hammers and constructing stuff. When we finally made them everybody was starving (we didn’t though about the time lost on constructing the stairs) then we used the stairs to reach the coconuts that were at the top of the palm trees and finally we made a hole on each coconut to reach the “milk”, “sauce”… (The milk of a coconut is one of the richest foods on vitamins). Everybody had fun and we were actually really helping the homeless. When we decided to return to the city it was too late… it was the night already so we decided to sleep at the beach.
                When we woke up everybody was there. And Tom had the great idea of playing a football game all together. And with the football, the beach, the sun, the coconut we had the best day of our lives!! And Then Alice decided to bring some fishing rods and she taught people how to fish. So that night we all ate fish and drink coconut milk! I had a very satisfying feeling, because everything that we were doing was produced by ourselves, it’s funny to say it this way but we were like a mini-community.
                The next day we woke up absolutely amazed by what was happening. Belive it or not, the homeless people were constructing houses!!! They took the constructing stuff and cut trees and made houses, they were not real houses… they were more like rigid tents but it’s something incredible anyway. That day we constructed houses for everybody and then we left… we didn´t wanted to leave but… The guys (Tom, Alice…) wanted to visit their families so we left but we were so excited by what we created… we created a real civilization, they had houses, food, entertainment, everything! So we promised the “homeless” (that now had houses, so they were not homeless anymore) that we would return in 2 or 3 days. It was the best experience of my entire life. 

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