Eventually the time came to leave and I was gutted. Everyone came out to wave us off and there were hugs all round, I feel so stupid to admit it but I was really emotional to leave my new friends. I loved everything about the life there. Everything was simpler and stripped back, there was so much that I learnt in such a little time, but I don't want to go into too much detail as I'm worried I will paint them in a bad light as its easy to judge against our way of ...

Eventually I came out of my shell. Once I started involving myself in their daily life they really opened up. Most of the days were the same, we would milk the cows and horses which was so much fun, I really enjoyed getting dirty. It was a tough job, you had to make the babies go to there mums then once they had got the milk going you had to put the babies away so the girls could milk the mum this was really hard with the horses as they were so strong and very v...

The next couple of days were tough. Adjusting to the way of life. The language barrier made everything difficult. Our ger was a round frame covered in material that didn't quite reach the ground, it had a grass floor with a couple of rugs as our bed there was a small table and a fire in the middle. The toilet that everyone shared was a whole in the ground with a few logs about 3 feet high around 3 sides that faced the gers with the front left open, it had an ama...