Wow!!! What an amazing time we just had!! Thankgod me and Steve were there to help out the team with our tried and tested DIY skills! Somehow we managed to help build a release site for rehabilitated orangutans in the middle of the forest...It was really hard work, we both found out that we are not particularly gifted at sawing, chiseling, hammering, cementing, making ceilings, making furniture, painitng etc etc.. but the buidling went up! There had been so much rain that the entire area was flooded so we didn't even get to walk anywhere for 4 weeks, I can just about get from sitting to standing now without screaming in agony! We have been bitten by a million mosquitos but so far have avoided malaria unlike our project leader who already caught it twice this
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