Friday night, we ended up at the Youth Hostel again, just for a change! It was Patrick’s birthday, a Canadian who lives here, and so we celebrated with whiskey, beer, and several rounds of a dodgy card game called ‘Circle of Death’, which basically just involves a lot of drinking gulps for various sketchy reasons. We were also playing with Joachim, the Swedish husband of Jocelyn, one of the girls who is ‘in charge’ of us volunteers. He is absolutely bonkers, and made up all sorts of bizarre rules, which have now been irretrievably absorbed into the game. It was a lot of fun, but ended up being a 4am finish, which is never a good sign. The morning after, we were due to leave at 8.30 am for the ‘trip to the countryside’. This trip
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