Burpees Schmurpees

Day 23. It's going too fast. Today's project was possibly the easiest yet! We walked (with wicker baskets on back) for 15 minutes or so, to a place where the locals did some deforesting! I mostly stood around inspecting the odd caterpillars and other bugs that had been showered upon us. After dragging logs down a hill to repair a bridge (again!), we loaded up our wickers with one big log each, then walked back to the village. I carried my log under my arm - i'd had enough of the basket from yesterday's sand experience! I even made it back without breaking into a sweat... which was hard seeing as this is getting on towards the equator at noon!
Then lurked a killer workout session, randomly organised by Adam to prepare us for all the walking during the next week. Can I now say... I HATE BURPEES! Granted however, i did feel better for it... after a long sit down though! Pretty much the rest of the day was one of those lazy tuesdays. We are leaving the village tomorrow (sad sad)...
Me & Calvey continued our "naming the 27 Beatles number ones" game... to no avail (it's harder than you think!)
I ended up getting about 23ish, Calvey slightly less. Cuz I'm better than him.
Packing our bags was quite a hassle as everything was everywhere and shared about. We even tried a last-ditch practice attempt at "Brown-Eyed Girl", despite the guitar string snapping! (I just wonder how easy it is for the locals to get such items as C major guitar strings around these parts?!) Oh the guilt!
So we gave up the practicing, deciding we were as good as could be... which wasn't very. Shower shifts continued all afternoon to rinse away the stink...
What a great evening followed...

• Food auctions - we BOUGHT food off the locals for our walk tomorrow, despite them piling food upon us all week!
• Lotsa nice food - a TRUE feast, for the eyes and tummy yummy yum
• Speeches - ... from both us and the locals including Soos speaking in Kelabit!
• Performing - Our rendition of Brown-Eyed Girl went down a treat, and we loved the old ladies of the village showing us their hypnotic local dance... well I did anyway!
• We even argued about sharing the food we'd bough! ... No wait, that's a bad thing...

The best part of the evening came with dancing! Following the lead
of a very agile NINETY-TWO year old, we all danced to the rythms of the local sound (think Sitar, but accelerated and more crazy!). How the old man could move! There was the "hat of dance", where the wearer performed a solo dance and everyone followed lead. We all had a go and twas non-stop fun - mu ha ha... my lanky jig! There was also conga-lining where everyone joined in, but that finished us off, and so our matresses beckoned us!
As we prepared to settle for the night, a kind woman appeared in our house and gave us two more (free) pineapples! How random!

We're leaving Long Dano tomoz, with a 10 hours walking day ahead of us... dear god!