29/10/2019 – Volunteering, Pucon, Chile

It was still raining when we woke up, and pretty cold upstairs in our room at the top of the house. Quite a draughty window – thinking of using cling film as double glazing if it stays cold here. I think the heating (a big furnace on the middle floor) is broken so the handyman Freddy has been trying to fix it all day! Josh did some electrical work – he is making a cool big rustic wooden light fitting thing that he is going to suspend in the kitchen. Pretty good deal for the hostel to get all his labour for free! I made some brownies again which were more gooey than a couple of days ago and went down a treat. Its been cold and rainy all day so there have been more guests around the hostel, using it as a day to reset, reading books, playing games, and chilling in the lounge next to the fire. Some of us played the complicated snap game, blood was shed! I popped out to the shops for a little stroll when there was a break in the rain – it started raining pretty heavily a few minutes in so I abandoned that and went back to the hostel, curled up by the fire and got stuck into my book. Josh finished at around 16:00 so we had a coffee and chilled before making dinner - coconut rice and veg. I opened the bar up and Josh went and relaxed for a bit. He has really got into his chess app on his phone recently. I have really been enjoying people watching from behind the bar and meeting all sorts of people, different ages and from so many different parts of the world, it is quite a fun temporary job! Plus I can pull a decent pint now!