Planting Plants

Then today Tyler dropped me off early this morning at the SA Conservationist office because I had signed up a few weeks ago for the volunteer day today. I had tried to sign up for more days but most of them were all filled up. We loaded up into a van and drove about 20 km down to Pelican Harbor. There were about 7 older (retired or almost retired-ish) aged men - including the leader. Then there was a young Korean girl who was going to uni in Adelaide to learn English. She had been here about 4 months and had another 6 months to go. Right now though she was on a 10 week holiday from school - I guess its like winter break for them. And there was another young Asian girl but she didn't say much and kinda sat in the corner with nice clothes on and didn't get dirty. Kinda odd for a day of digging and planting. We went out to a big field type area where people unfortunately sometimes put garbage and did some "beautifying" of the land. Luckily we didn't have to pick up garbage but we did plant almost 300 small little plants -including some tufts of grass. I mostly planted with a guy named Paul who just chatted the entire time so that was super interesting. He was really friendly but had a really strong Australian accent so it was sometimes hard to understand. We definitely talked about everything from jobs to families to school to politics to economics. Haha - it was interesting. We took a break for morning tea and then another break for lunch. It was a fun time for sure! I'm sad I couldn't sign up for more days!