Repeat - Day Twenty One
A busy day, one that didn't really allow for free time or waiting around I was kept in and around the same place. Today involved a full day of sorting and organising the fruit and veg into the appropriate locations.
In the morning we did the usual walk to the building to encounter the fruit and veg awaiting our help. Putting our things away first, we then made a start and by lunchtime we were finished. This would have been a much faster task if we did not have to remove all the elastic bands holding together the bunches of radishes and herbs.
After lunch, we walked towards the kitchen to have a change of scenery by looking at dairy instead. With the sun out and a good warm outside, we began moving some of the boxes outside at the back of the building so that we could sit inbetween the bears whilst working. Unfortunately, this idea was soon stumped and we were instructed to then just work on the meat. As the meats were mixed in with the boxes of dairy, we needed to search for them first and so staying in the kitchen was a wiser choice.
A few to five minutes into the meats, Isti came into the kitchen, looked at me and told me to go with him. This was said in a simple but understandable English, better than some of the Romanian I have attempted in the past. I helped to move these large metal sheets sitting on top of the second delivery of food. Suitably so, this was followed by helping to take the food out of the van, and then sort through all of it. There was a lot.
With Estelle and Birgitta busy with the meats, I was outside in the sun sorting through fruit and veg with four to five of the workers. As time went on, the workers steadily one by one dropped off to do something else, or go home, not sure. By the last box only Margareta was left who was busy tying up rubbish bags The time was 15:37 and meant I needed to go. I had basically spent the whole day sorting through fruit and veg.
On the walk down the hills, along the path, I wanted to make sure that I took at least one or two photos as I had not had the chance earlier in the day. I took the photo below of "The Beast", the bear I met yesterday, who had decided to sit in the middle of all the food and just claw food near him to eat.
Tomorrow is my last day at the sanctuary. Hopefully it will be a good one, perhaps with less work so that I can get some more shots of the bears before I leave, and say goodbye to them all. Though that could be quite difficult a task if any of them are situated in the middle of the forest.
In the morning we did the usual walk to the building to encounter the fruit and veg awaiting our help. Putting our things away first, we then made a start and by lunchtime we were finished. This would have been a much faster task if we did not have to remove all the elastic bands holding together the bunches of radishes and herbs.
After lunch, we walked towards the kitchen to have a change of scenery by looking at dairy instead. With the sun out and a good warm outside, we began moving some of the boxes outside at the back of the building so that we could sit inbetween the bears whilst working. Unfortunately, this idea was soon stumped and we were instructed to then just work on the meat. As the meats were mixed in with the boxes of dairy, we needed to search for them first and so staying in the kitchen was a wiser choice.
A few to five minutes into the meats, Isti came into the kitchen, looked at me and told me to go with him. This was said in a simple but understandable English, better than some of the Romanian I have attempted in the past. I helped to move these large metal sheets sitting on top of the second delivery of food. Suitably so, this was followed by helping to take the food out of the van, and then sort through all of it. There was a lot.
With Estelle and Birgitta busy with the meats, I was outside in the sun sorting through fruit and veg with four to five of the workers. As time went on, the workers steadily one by one dropped off to do something else, or go home, not sure. By the last box only Margareta was left who was busy tying up rubbish bags The time was 15:37 and meant I needed to go. I had basically spent the whole day sorting through fruit and veg.
On the walk down the hills, along the path, I wanted to make sure that I took at least one or two photos as I had not had the chance earlier in the day. I took the photo below of "The Beast", the bear I met yesterday, who had decided to sit in the middle of all the food and just claw food near him to eat.
Tomorrow is my last day at the sanctuary. Hopefully it will be a good one, perhaps with less work so that I can get some more shots of the bears before I leave, and say goodbye to them all. Though that could be quite difficult a task if any of them are situated in the middle of the forest.
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