7.7.12

Chudenice - leading a workcamp

Mostly included in the final report. Some special points:
  • Cited in a newspaper
  • Eating wild boar meat
  • Making pottery
  • Excursion to a bee yard
Coming as a leader is not as good for relaxing as coming as a volunteer. In fact, I returned completely exhausted, somewhat ill and with a terrible back pain. Also, it's harder to build very close bonds with volunteers since you have a lot of responsibilities and most of the time you may not just hang up with the people you like.
It was exciting nevertheless. Very tiresome, but very exciting - always something to do, always something to organize, always people to talk with. I would surely want to do it again - or something similar.

Last, a funny story - when arriving, Sona, one of helpers of me and Jana Ulrychova, brought me by car with her mother to Chudenice. Her mother: "Oh, you speak good Czech. But you don't come from the Czech Republic, do you?" Apparently, a long shadow of my "going Dutch".



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