Maybe I've been reading too much Scarlet Pimpernel, but the wwoofers are revolting and planning to get the hell off the island at their first opportunity.
I understand that I get the best deal on the island. I don't do any heavy work, the classroom is semi-air-conditioned and I get paid. Wwoofers are officially “Willing Workers on Organic Farms”, or volunteers who work 6 hours a day in return for free room and board. The poor wwoofers couldn't believe their luck when they got the job on the island. When they arrived they were in awe and so happy. One of them DROVE all the way from Sydney to get here. Less than two weeks later, they have been scrubbing and cleaning in the heat and the mosquitoes until they are too exhausted at the end of the day to enjoy the island. The clouds of mosquitoes make sleeping almost impossible (poor things don't have a mosquito net like me). Now they want off. It takes a lot of work to keep a desert island clean. And they aren't getting paid and it's been the hottest summer in living memory. And that's not even mentioning all the damn cyclones.
Anyway, they are all planning to take the next boat back to the mainland. We have three new hapless victims (ummmm. . . . wwoofers) arriving next week. More German girls. Let's see how long they last.
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