Another unsuccessful day with rain, wind, and no power. At least the water collecters are full now! Me, Geoff (kiwi), Thomas (Czech), Piere (French), and Carl (Ireland) are all in the dark around the camp fire... It was just so strange to have so many different people all with different accents speaking the same language and talking about their countries and traveling and such. We all noted how dependent everyone is on electricity and lights. Just trying to operate on natural lighting was difficult as we are all used to eating dinner at 8-9 at night... we couldnt even see what we were eating at that time none the less cook something! It was pretty funny though. I usually microwave dinner so I was out of luck for food. The other guys were planning on making pasta, however without power the water was not pumped so they were done too.
So we were all depressed about no food and discussed again how fortunate we are and we take things for granted, imagining how it would be if we had to survive without modern technology.... and then the POWER CAME BACK ON!!! Geoff immediatly says "YES i was worried i was going to miss my show! Glad I dont have to talk to you guys anymore!" and he runs out the door. Thomas runs to the faucet and gets water into his pot for pasta. I remove myself since I can now nuke my dinner of canned beans.
It was so easy to forget what we were all talking about as the bright lights of electricity and television are captivating
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