Lorraine’s work experience travel log

Monday 14th November 2022 Today Anna, Emily and Cain (Junior Conservation Assistant) were helping Sunita and Johnny (Park Wardens) with some work up at the top of Green Mountain. Cain, Anna and I were clearing some of the sweet ginger plant that looks kind of like giant lemongrass and smells really nice. Its really lovely on green mountain because its so much cooler than below because of all the plants which create a mist at the top as well. We had a short break at 11am and then a lunch break at around half past 12 before finishing up around 2pm and heading up the dew pond letterbox walk path to the peak of the mountain. We then took the tools we had used back down to red lion near where the shade houses are before driving back to the office. Anna and I then made an oven bake with potatoes, aubergine, green beans, quorn pieces, carrot and garlic for dinner before heading to the office to use the internet for a little while :) We also recieved a fruit delivery from our friend Austin

 Last week I made the 3 day journey to start my new role as Conservation internon Ascension Island! I left the UK on the 3rd November, flying from Heathrow (where I met another Intern - Anna) at 17:30 and landing in Frankfurt around an hour and a half later. We then flew from Frankfurt to Johannasberg at 22:00 and arrived in South Africa at around 9am the next morning (4th November). The flight was long, and I watched two films in between food and sleeping; The Hustle, and the new minions film (rise of Gru?). The landing in South Africa was a little rough, there was a lot of turbulence and the girl next to me was being sick in a bag on the way down, but once we landed Anna and I were glad to head to the hotel we had been booked by AIG (Ascension Island Government). The hotel was connected to the aiport so we didn't have to leave the airport, just walked through to the hotel from the inside, we weren't allowed to check in until 2pm so we waited in the hotel lobby with our bags f