Choosing to make her own adventure
Susan decided to make a rich life of her own in this far land. She had a terraced vegetable garden with lettuces, beans, sweetcorn. There were wild raspberries in the woods, and sometimes hunters would come by with a leg of bushbuck for them.
She baked bread in the old fashioned way: building a huge fire and then raking out the embers and putting the warm raised loaves to bake in the remaining heat. It was good to be the provider of food.
She decided that the children in the workers encampment could learn to read, so she started a school for them. The children came and learned, and taught her too.
Jack built a schoolhouse for them with timber from the sawmill. Other helpers came, schoolboys on holiday from the far away college came, and learned from her how to teach. She made journeys to the capital to establish the school in the eyes of the government.
She and Jack were very close, and he too knew that this was her own adventure as well as his.
For months Susan felt as though she had been born for this life. But things began to go wrong...
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