As you can remember the aim of my trip was volunteer work in the kid's camp in misterious place called Valvestino.
What is the best way to describe where was this place? Well, in Italy there is huge lake calles Garda. Near Lago di Garda there is small and pretty nice tawn Gargnano. And if you take a bus (that goes just twice a day) and drive for an hour or even more somewhere in the directions of mountains, pass Valvestino lake and if you are lucky enough you will reach place called Turano. Exactly there me and another volunteer from Estonia spent three weeks =) Why 3 when i was supposed to be there for 5? I think this place is so nowhere that parents are just scared of sandind their children there (i was, when i arrived).
It is quite easy to describe his place Just imegine medieval tipical italian village, add there maximum 100 inhabbitants, one bar/shop, two churches (that ring every 30 minutes ALL the time) and here it is - Turano! Actually we lived not exactly in there, but in a small house 10 minutes walking away on mountain-nice, right)) And it wont be enough to say that i was scared of beng there: no heating, no internet, no TV, no phone (yeah, i didnt have connection) - and it is for me, for Moscow-girl. And yes first days were awful, i had literarly nohing to do, weather was awful (because we were surrounded by mountains).
But than kids came, we started to do some activities, we walked till thenext villages, and i really started to enjoy it. Nature around us was just wonderful, the other volunteer was really cool girl (Klaudi, i miss you!) and day by day i learned from our italian cook not only how to cook italian food (what i did and what im proud of now) but also how to do nothing - this italian talent, that we, ppl from north, simply dont have).
I have to write a bit about our work) Actually we didnt do a lot, just helped to play with kids, were looking after boiler, i was helping on the kitchen (because i wanted to learn and because our nice cook Marco and me became good friends, but oh god, he was so italian!) We had to look for a work to do just to do something and it was a bit boring, but i have nothing to complain)
Oh, and me and this estonian girl, we just found each other - we loved to eat (we even went to the other village just to pick some cherries), we loved to drink, what else did we need?) Yeah, we had very nice evenings there, ireally do miss it now.
On our last night there Klaudi's friend came and we had really strange night with limoncello, russian music and a lot of glowworms around. The next morning we went to Milan from where Klaudi and her friend went to Turino and i headed to another holy italian place Asso...
But than kids came, we started to do some activities, we walked till thenext villages, and i really started to enjoy it. Nature around us was just wonderful, the other volunteer was really cool girl (Klaudi, i miss you!) and day by day i learned from our italian cook not only how to cook italian food (what i did and what im proud of now) but also how to do nothing - this italian talent, that we, ppl from north, simply dont have).
I have to write a bit about our work) Actually we didnt do a lot, just helped to play with kids, were looking after boiler, i was helping on the kitchen (because i wanted to learn and because our nice cook Marco and me became good friends, but oh god, he was so italian!) We had to look for a work to do just to do something and it was a bit boring, but i have nothing to complain)
On our last night there Klaudi's friend came and we had really strange night with limoncello, russian music and a lot of glowworms around. The next morning we went to Milan from where Klaudi and her friend went to Turino and i headed to another holy italian place Asso...
