2. Donkeys

I went on a walk with the donkeys today. I hope you can believe me when I say that donkeys aren't only stubborn, they're also really smart! With donkeys, you only have to convey the message (for example 'don't eat while walking') a few times, and then they get it. And they remember it the whole walk! With other animals, you have to constantly keep watch and remind them, but the donkeys just understood it really quickly. But then, since they are so smart, they also have a lot of opinions. That is why they are so stubborn, I think. Once they have decided something, they stand by it, and nothing you can do can change it (except use far too much force for it to be called humane or even normal).

Today I shovelled more poop. But that is what I will do every day, so there is no use repeating it. It's hard to clear the area we were working on today, because along the ground there are these long root-like things, and they make everything you try to put on your shovel fall off. We are currently clearing an out of use banana field, so there are also all the dead banana leaves on the ground. It makes a simple but disgusting job just that much more frustrating.

I realise I am complaining, and I shouldn't, because it is so wonderful here. I thought I would just give you some facts about the place I am living so that you can imagine it somehow. There are 7 horses here: one gelding and 6 mares. They have a relatively large pasture, which consists of two relatively flat parts with a hilly part between. On one of the flat parts is the shelter where you can find the hammock and the water for the horses. They also have 3 donkeys, 2 chickens, 1 rooster, 14 pigs (6 of them only days old...soooo cute!), some (I don't know how many...maybe 15 - 20) sheep. Five of the sheep are constantly breaking out of the enclosure, they just walk straight through the electric fence (at least that is what it is generally thought they do). There is also a vegetable/fruit garden, fields of banana trees, and also other fruit trees (like guava, which is soo good). The building complex is quite large, but we are only approximately 30 people living here at the moment.

That is all for now, in this abnormally long blog post (for it to be part of BEDA...now I probably won't have anything to write tomorrow) about (at least) three different themes.

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