So far, this week has gone quickly for me. I've been doing the usual things but this morning, my lessons finished early so I went back along the walk that Ken showed us to read in the sun. I made a video on the way for you to get an idea of life in an Indian village called Lower Sukkar.
While I was trying to upload that, I saw lots of smoke coming from the valley by the school. It wasn't dying down so I went to look. It seemed that the usual arsonists had been having fun with the dry weather and there was a good chance of it spreading and causing a forest fire.
I wasn't going to sit by and let that happen so I got a bucket and went down to the nearby streams to throw water on the few small fires. I succeeded with stopping the ones near the top but had to go down to tackle one that I couldn't reach. Fortunately, there is another stream below it and I managed to get water to it. I didn't really get into any danger in case you are worried, but of course I inhaled some smoke as I was doing it. They turned out to be Indians' ways of disposing of their rubbish. They fill a bag of everything, including plastic, set fire to it and throw it over the hillside. This may be a cultural thing but it is absolute stupidity, I don't mind saying that.
I'm just glad I managed to prevent a forest fire.
That was not the type of post I was expecting to share with you...
While I was trying to upload that, I saw lots of smoke coming from the valley by the school. It wasn't dying down so I went to look. It seemed that the usual arsonists had been having fun with the dry weather and there was a good chance of it spreading and causing a forest fire.
I wasn't going to sit by and let that happen so I got a bucket and went down to the nearby streams to throw water on the few small fires. I succeeded with stopping the ones near the top but had to go down to tackle one that I couldn't reach. Fortunately, there is another stream below it and I managed to get water to it. I didn't really get into any danger in case you are worried, but of course I inhaled some smoke as I was doing it. They turned out to be Indians' ways of disposing of their rubbish. They fill a bag of everything, including plastic, set fire to it and throw it over the hillside. This may be a cultural thing but it is absolute stupidity, I don't mind saying that.
I'm just glad I managed to prevent a forest fire.
That was not the type of post I was expecting to share with you...
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