grande spectaculo del malabarista italiano

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This week we went to Bilbao: nice to know that shops stil exist. We enjoyed to walk a little in the centre and to visit the gugenheim museum: great exposition there!
Today we have prepared the show of this evening: diaboloexperte end acrobate Jacopo has his first show here in Aldea. I'm his personal assistant :) Yesterday we drove to villages in the area to promote the show and insure to people that they realyy have to come. At the moment Jacopo is smoking sigarettes like a mad guy because he is very nervous, but everything will be alright.
Tomorow early in the morning I leave La Aldea to go to torremolinos: a buzy place at the southcoast of spain full of tourists and beachpeople. I go there for an EVScourse with other voluntarians to get to know eachother, the language, the country and eachothers cultures. I look forward to it: I'm allways in for more travelling. I only feel nothing for laying on a beach full of dark baked people, but ok: I guess we have a full program (not to do on the beach)
Next weekend we have the exposition of Vardan and after that I realy have to start work hard at my personal project because this week I didn't have the time to work on that. I also was a little ill (headache) This other climate and food and ritme asks much of my body. I miss my foodattitudes of belgium. Normaly I eat tons of vegetables and fruit. Here we eat lots of eggs, meat, beans, bread, pasta and rice. We can cook vegetables, but the other volunterians don't like that much: only here and there in a recepy a courgette, a carot or an onian. We do have everyday salades and dorien does here best to make many vegetables. I'm only used to eat tons of them :)

Bybyyyy

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Saar

jacopo

Hoera hoera

Another voluntarion has arrived: un chico de Italia: Jacopo. It's always a party when more people join us in La Aldea. He's very social: when somebody new comes we talk about everything we know about eachothers country. All the Italian movies, artists and recepies we knew are discussed. Tonight FIESTA in our house.
Yesterday I went to Miranda de Ebro with Dorien to buy food for three weeks. It's 45 minutes driving to the first big supermarket. Miranda is an ugly city with lots of industry and it's the second city in the world with that much cocaine in the wather: drugs, drugs, drugs, .... the first city is New York: imagine!!
I'm painting a lampcap (???: lampekap in duch) now: later i'm going to make a frame to put the lampcap on and then Jorge and me are going to install a lamp in it: yes, finaly i'm going to learn a bit about electricity :) Further I'm working on my personal project: a big project I will work on for six months. I'm going to organise a fashionshow with strange clothes, dance and my own artworkes as decor. It will be also an activity with people from the neighbourhood: I need models and dancers he: I like it.

This is it for now.

Ah and I have a spanish number for my mobile: 0034 699 72 58 41

Bybyyyyyy

Saarrr

burgos

Ola

This weekend I went to Burgos. There were fiestas: a little similar to the gentse feesten: great!! There was a concert of a band that played Flamenco music: we danced alot. Later we went to the bars ( a lot of alternative bars in Burgos: I like it).

In La Aldea the same slow rithm:I feel like I'm on holidays although I also get used to it now. All the new stuf vanished now. It's important to work on my spanish because it's easy to get borred when you can't communicate with the others. The tree volunteers in La Aldea are all quite silent people. Jorge and Dorien don't like that, but we try and I guess that when we speak well spanish in a few weeks, we will talk more and get a little more alive. You get quite fast tired when you have to talk in a language you don't know well. But for me it's easier than for the other volunteers because Dorien speeks Duch. Now and then we have a little talk: that makes me feel faster like at home.
Now I finished the painting of the van: they like it: ooof. I will start with a new artproject now; the volunteers will also make an artwork together. We will make a tree of iron and hang things in it. Vardan will make leaves in glas, I will work with rope and texts and Eva will make some paintings!I look forward to start with this project.

kisses

Sarah

week 2

Bienos dias!!

I like life here. In the morning we work in the garden with our sombreros on our head. After that we work alot on our artworks. I'm painting the van like my typical drawings: soon fotographs of that here :)
We work with music on the background: we have the same taste: lots of worldmusic ... and of course JACQUES BREL. The Spanish people will know the Belgians!!!
Last weekend there was a gathering with some people from the area for courses about egologic agriculture. We also visited a farm where Sabel makes ecologic cheese of sheepmilk: very very tasty.
Dorien and Jorje make a lot of action for ecologic agriculture and other themes like stopping the nuclear central in Burgos and take action against the autopista: a big autoway politicians want to build through the mountains. I like all these actions!!

Ok That's it for today. And for those who want to call me now and then: 0034 947 301404
This is the number of the phone in the house of the voluntarios. It's more cheap!! I like a call now and then: best call in the evenings around nine or during the siesta: 03h00 till 05h00

Hasta luego!!!

Sarah