Lucky me, I got to experience a once in a year event - 10/17/09

I can´t believe we´ve experienced more excitement to tell about, but it´s true. There´s only three of us left (and still no Tina) so every night we are doing our best not to creep ourselves out about being in the dark, in the forest, an hours hike from help, and with these obnoxsious dogs that do not stop barking at nothing all night. This is no small feat and usually unsuccessful. Nature decided to make it even harder. I went into my room with no wall and Andrea and Rebecca went into their´s. I was laying in bed, trying to relax, when all of a sudden it soudned like giant boulders were rolling down into the valley, then it was dead silence, not even the bugs were making noise, and then my bed started shaking. It lasted like 20-30 second which maybe doesn´t seem like a lot, but I challenge you to experience the smae thing under our circumstances. After the rumbling and shaking I was so terrified I couldn´t move. I yelled outto the girls and asked them if they had felt that too, and they had. I ran into their room where we all freaked the hell out and vented our frustrations that we were left alone, in the middle of the woods, to deal with one natural disaster after another. I eventually built up the courage to go back to my room, but I had a terrible sleep. The past few days we have been working on constructing an extension to the table. Right now there are benches on all four sides, but the actual table only reaches three of the benches which is not only just a poor design, its also super annoying. So us three ladies have been putting our carpentry skills to work and it´s been really enjoyable. We also found this part of the river that has a tiny little waterfall that falls into a calmer pool area with giant rocks all around and purple flowers floating everywhere. I´ve been bathing there every day and I feel like I have my own private spa; it´s gorgeous.