This week started in a forest. The day after our block tried to kill us.
Blocks occasionally have high standing trees on them that do not have the protection of a surrounding forest. And because of the area that we were working on was pretty mountainous the wind was murderous, causing trees to crack and start falling as we planted.
One girl on my crew was missed by a few meters and scavenged a piece of the tree that could have crushed her. Later, after it was decided it was too dangerous to work on our block another person on my crew had a close call. This time with the heavy metal doors of the box truck slamming shut, almost closing on him and crushing body. The sound of the crashing bang and Greg shouted a warning as Maddy jumped out of the way was terrifying.
We all pulled out cigarettes and laughed after that, turning up the music on the truck and taking photos, Maddy looking pale and shaken.
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