The project for today was picking macadamia nuts, so the
entire crew assembled at the bottom of the property in the morning, were all
given a bucket, told how to identify the good, the bad and the ugly of the nuts and then set free under the hundreds of nut trees to collect the little spheres that were lying
everywhere there. It was quite a pleasantly mindless task; I listened to my ‘A
Clash of Kings’ audiobook and would’ve actually really enjoyed myself if I
wasn’t still silently panicking about my bag. After our shift was complete I
went inside to quickly check my emails and to my immense relief found an e-mail
in my inbox with the subject line ‘We have your purse’ – big shout-out to Sarah
again for telling me a while back that I should put an ‘If found, please return
to…’ note into my sketchbook, which is where they found my contact details. I
was exchanging e-mails with the woman (the old man’s wife) for the rest of the
day trying to arrange a time for them to drop it off or for me to pick it up
but because they were mysteriously apparently only able to drive when it was
sunny, it was found that it wouldn’t happen today but that they would drop it
off tomorrow. Just another example of the incredible kindness and helpfulness
we’ve experienced from so many people since being in Hawaii.
After these
amazing news we decided to go to a supermarket and buy some ingredients for the
dinner that we will be cooking tomorrow – Cameron and Lori have a tradition
that all helpers at some point cook a meal from their home country for the
hosts, and we, creatively, had decided to make the ‘British’ national dish of
curry. We hitchhiked with a Swiss couple and quite spontaneously got out of the
car when we spotted a small Asian-looking supermarket from the road in a little town that we hadn’t been to before. We got most of our ingredients and
other groceries here, apart from the obviously most important ones of curry
sauce and meat/shrimps that they didn't sell. So after checking out another nearby store that was
selling the most incredible funky fetish wear we hitchhiked grudgingly back to
the Choicemart. There we were distracted by a Chinese restaurant and decided to
share a shrimp plate for dinner, which was very nice. After that we actually went to Choicemart
(after getting embarrassingly lost), and curry sauce was gotten without a problem
but the meat prices were extortionate and since I thought we should stick to
our vegetarian principles just a BIT more it was decided to replace the meat in
the sauce with potatoes. Back at home we decided to keep up our tradition of
musical movie nights and put on ‘Moulin Rouge’ but once again technology got in
the way and it stopped working halfway through so we decided to save the rest for another night.
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