So we're going to have to skip a little bit...well, a lot actually. sorry,currently I'm only able to access the internet if I use someone elses computer which means I don't have all my photos - however, eventually I'll put up the photos from the rest of the trip with mum and from Battle of the Flowers and various other happenings - you can always check for photos on my facebook - there's definitely BoF photos and other stuff up there :) But for now I can talk about more recent things where the photos are still on my camera/phone - like Jersey Live !
Jersey Live, for those who don't know, is a music festival held every year on a farm here in Jersey over the weekend and every year Durrell gets volunteers to go there and collect cans for their Cans for Corridors scheme - an incredibly awesome project where aluminium cans are recycled and the money goes towards setting up local farming co-ops to help the landless people of Brazil get out of poverty by planting native trees to form corridors of forest between habitat fragments where the Black Lion Tamarins live - that way they can move between fragments increasing genetic mixing and helping the populations become more stable :) So basically I got into a music festival for free, got free food and had a lot of fun -for free. It was pretty much the best thing ever. We ended up getting enough cans in those two days to plant over 300 trees so I think we did pretty dang well and we got to see some amazing bands - including Rizzlekicks, Alex Clare, Noel Gallagher (though he wasn't that great) and Chase and Status.
A whole bunch of students and people from work went, both as volunteers and just as festival-goers and there were several different stages and bars, fairground rides, a food village and stalls and face painting :) Also, apparantly we were on the news when they did a bit about the festival so I'm kind of famous :)
One of the more exciting things to happen was that a spider crawled out of Noel Gallaghers guitar cases and they called upon the resident Durrell "experts" (i.e. my friend Rachel who is a herpetology (frogs and reptiles) and vet microbiology student - haha) to identify it. we used google. we didn't find out what it was - they took it back to Durrell and as it turns out its a 6-eyed spider found throughout Europe - but there was a danger it was from one of the more exotic places Noel Gallagher has toured recently so it was important to check. The story has made it into the Daily Mail, the Sun and even local TV news as well - Matt, the head of |Herps even got a call from LA asking about it and someone wanted to buy the spider!!!
Anyway, here are some photos to try and convey the atmosphere and the fun that was had by all :)
xxKim
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