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Boxing Day - Night 77
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Today was Boxing, a National Holiday, so once again we had the day off from volunteering. I spent the sunny morning hiking the Hutt River Trail, a flat walk along the levees. Around noon the weather turned sour again, to the point of even bringing a bit of hail in the afternoon. The remainder of the day was spent updating my journal and trying to upload photos to Flickr and Facebook. The internet here on the island is incredibly slow, especially when trying to move large photo files.
PS. As you can probably tell by the decreasing length of my journal entries that I have become a bit bored in the last week or so. My time here at the volunteer house has been great, however, we are stuck out in the suburbs with no easy transportation into the city, thus it isn't hard to run out of things to do on free days. In the end, I think a month on any one volunteer project is probably about the proper amount of time to spend. It'll be a change to go back to living out of a bag next Tuesday, but it should be a welcomed change from my current sedentary existence...though I am sure i'll miss having my own room and fridge full of food.
What I Learned Today: Boxing Day originated in Victorian England when the rich would box up their unwanted presents and give them to the poor on the day after Christmas.
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