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Nishi - Setting Up Camp.
Hi from Nishi,
Gaja and I had arrived at this beautiful lake with others from this Letters Group. We had attended the meeting with everyone when Mike explained how he wanted the camp laid out. I must confess, I was a bit surprised how Mike had come to the fore like that. He seems a very laid-back guy, perhaps a bit shy was the first impression I got. He seemed to allow his wife to lead things. Shanti, Sarvesh and Donald had been running the group on the trip so far.
Suddenly, with this camping, Mike had come to the fore. I noticed some of the other women were calling him Commander Mike which I thought was a bit funny. It seems he was the one organizing the transport, now he was organizing this camp. The meeting was about he had concerns that had to be addressed. He explained there were a lot of tents to be fitted into a smaller site. Cars and vans had to be arranged to provide privacy from a nearby public walking track and there was a high fire risk which had to be considered too. (No open fires allowed!)
After the meeting, when Riya came to Gaja and me, she told us we had tent number seven which was on a site closer to the lake and was a tent that belonged to one of the New Zealanders. She gave us a printed map that showed the camp layout with names of where everyone was. I was impressed at how professional it was. Then she took us to our tent site and left us. All that was there was a large canvas bag and a few smaller ones. It seems that this was our tent.
I helped Gaia open things and we got the main tent laid out on the ground. Gaja was trying to put it up and neither of us had any idea what to do. Other tents around us were going up quickly and ours was still on the ground. I could see he was becoming a bit frustrated and my trying to help him wasn’t achieving much either. I think I was annoying him more than helping. Men are like that and what we women take as aggressive, angry behaviour could be born from frustration at not being able to do something, particularly since I was there watching.
Gaja and I had arrived at this beautiful lake with others from this Letters Group. We had attended the meeting with everyone when Mike explained how he wanted the camp laid out. I must confess, I was a bit surprised how Mike had come to the fore like that. He seems a very laid-back guy, perhaps a bit shy was the first impression I got. He seemed to allow his wife to lead things. Shanti, Sarvesh and Donald had been running the group on the trip so far.
Suddenly, with this camping, Mike had come to the fore. I noticed some of the other women were calling him Commander Mike which I thought was a bit funny. It seems he was the one organizing the transport, now he was organizing this camp. The meeting was about he had concerns that had to be addressed. He explained there were a lot of tents to be fitted into a smaller site. Cars and vans had to be arranged to provide privacy from a nearby public walking track and there was a high fire risk which had to be considered too. (No open fires allowed!)
After the meeting, when Riya came to Gaja and me, she told us we had tent number seven which was on a site closer to the lake and was a tent that belonged to one of the New Zealanders. She gave us a printed map that showed the camp layout with names of where everyone was. I was impressed at how professional it was. Then she took us to our tent site and left us. All that was there was a large canvas bag and a few smaller ones. It seems that this was our tent.
I helped Gaia open things and we got the main tent laid out on the ground. Gaja was trying to put it up and neither of us had any idea what to do. Other tents around us were going up quickly and ours was still on the ground. I could see he was becoming a bit frustrated and my trying to help him wasn’t achieving much either. I think I was annoying him more than helping. Men are like that and what we women take as aggressive, angry behaviour could be born from frustration at not being able to do something, particularly since I was there watching.
