Volunteers’ Diary (Barbora 2)

Diary 8

Dear my and our friends, let’s improve our relationships, let’s share our experiences!

To start with: thanks a lot for the response of my first diary, the imagine persons who I am writing to starting to catch some real outlines. Willeke left and Petra came, “Encantapajaros” are “working”: these are the main points of this period.

More colorful it sounds like…..one month ago we didn’t have a clue how it would look like now☺ …we were trying to make record and make more and more encantapajaros, David made one snake too, I finished an “encantapajaros” of Laura as well and Matia is doing his “encantapajaros” ‘till now -next year it will be ready! But! but: Willeke, she is a winner for one category she made a really poetic tree with golden nests and big smile in the middle, she gave it a very very Dutch name “Tjilp tjilp”!!

Before the day with big D we had in our village something that can make all foreigner really jeulous: “a popular meal”. We were having big dinner with all neighbours exactly on the main village square, so again we improved our relationships with people from the village (except Milano who attacked small neighbour’s dog) we made very respectfull expresion on our faces after we said how long we are going to stay. I was trying to give some “responsable” answers on all kind of questions with whom from this two guys I am going to start dating…:-). Meal was really nice, drinks were never ending – fountain was full of drinks so in the morning we were making folks in square swimming pool, we were dancing, singing…helping Willeke to get to the car, waving at her, we shot our door while waving and than standing and freezing outside without keys ……– sorry there is no graduation because everything was very very OK!

But in the morning we woke up preparing ourselves for the price–giving of the “Encantapajaros” and all together made a really nice atmosphere and day of Encantapajaros! I think it was one of the biggest day for the village, for us, for our bar and next year you better come as well!!! There were a lot of people, a lot of prizes, children were good, weather was nice, encantapajaros were OK and we were glad…just Willeke wrote me today she was kind of broken in the bus !?

After this period the life here started to be much “normal”. We continue working on the house and now we are ready to put first floor, its just wood we are waiting for. I learnt how to make links on web , how effective Dorien is working with computers (Hi Dorien thnx), how spanish people cook rice…. Of course can’t forget Petra our canadian friend! She surprised us and came suddenly like storm. She is this kind of atomic woman with crazy laugh that is shooting everybody and all house is jumping. Anyway some serious hobbies of her are gardening, cooking and since 5 days learning spanish too. She made a science from this normal work that all of us are doing in the garden. Another competition of Feng-sui is developing here in La aldea. Remember it!

Second big change (after Jorges’ birthday ☺): Edo started to attend school for big guys. Yesterday – second day of school he came home with new “ favourite” word – “claro” that mean something like “of course”, so that makes me stop messing with stupid questions for him! “Claro” and he has his own taxi that is every day surprising us – black mercedes.??! Advantages for the children from small villages??! The sad thing that is going to happen is we have just nine days till Mattia leave uuuf…. if you still didn’t tell him something that you always wanted –better to do it as soon as possible.

OK I am closing this nice month looking forward on next one ….anyway work is hard, meal is nice, weather as well 😉
Love, lovely, loving……a lot Barbora