I thought as it might be a bit difficult to keep up with e-mailing or messaging on facebook or msn or icq or through the other million ways of communicating these days i will try to write a small update every other day or whenever I think I have something to say (.. ALL the time :D ).
Ok, so another day has gone by at paradise Ransberg ;) and i still like it a lot. (Ah by the way: the non-germans won, i'll write in english from now on, until someone complains, then I might switch to korean or ... my own special language that the people in nadino-mania speak :) ) However.. I met the other volunteer too, she'll leave tomorrow though, but she's nice and doesn't bite :) My fire-protection-security-how-not-to-burn-your-house-down-course went well I'd say. Instead of 5 hours I was done in 2 1/2 which is what I call "effective working" ;) The Danish scouts didn't seem to keen on talking to me, so I talked a bit more (which I had no problem with) and we were done quite fast. I then started to chat a bit with two workers (that have worked here for quite a long time) to ask for some "physical" work (My aim is to get to drive the big tractor here hehe ) so I ended up in the flowerbeds weeding. Not the coolest thing to do, but in my head I kept on picturing me driving a big red tractor so that kept me going!
At the moment there is a group of around 12 kids here. They have been here for 3 weeks now and are going to have their confirmation on Saturday. It's quite nice to see their little "traditions" they have every day, such as singing a grace before the meals and a short meditation / prayer / singing circle in the evenings too, where they all sit in a circle in the chapel (it's a scout chapel, so it's a nice and cozy one ;) ) with candles on the floor and repeat what has happened during the day or read a short story. I'm joining them most of the time, because it's a nice atmosphere . I was also supposed to help out a bit today when they went out on small floats that they built and follow them in a canoe in case something happened. But we then decided that they'd be fine on their own so instead I spent half the day lying in the grass and dozing a bit - I got the feeling I'm quite lucky with my voluntary "work" in Sweden ;)
Tomorrow I will actually do some "real" work though, as it's actually quite fun (ok, i've only been here for two days haha).
I'm also quite impressed by the kids as they iron their scoutshirts after washing them... well they probably have to but anyhow :)
Tonight we also had a match of "soap soccer" where you pretty much stand on a big plastic cover-thing covered in soap and water and then try to play soccer, which usually ends up in a big foam-party-kind-of-fight and is absolutely hilarious :)
So, quite a "busy" day today and looaddss of work...
I will go to bed now as I don't want to sleep through my alarm again (well it actually didn't go off at all because my phone died at some point last night).
Peace, love and soap for everyone ;)
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