I have arrived at my first helpx spot and i love it! how blessed i am to have this experience as my first. i am staying with a couple, Paola and Paul as well as their 3 children. i left the hostel and manuvuered my way on the trains and buses (quite easily may i add) to the little town of Velletri, where Paola and the children picked me up. We arrived to their home and quickly began making lunch (fish-balls and cous-cous...yes i ate it and yes it was good!) i was immediately treated like family and had the youngest children messing with me ;)
i am sleeping upstairs in their house (not the barn, as they are fixing the roof this week). my bedroom window (which is a farm-house double window opens up to look at the hillside...the sun rises beautifully right in front of me! in the afternoon, i helped with the garden and later with the donkeys! we had a homemade onion soup (i'm going to be quite the chef when i return) as well as homemade baked apples.
This morning i woke very early and merely gazed out my window until the sun rose. i had breakfast with Paola and Paul...they are lovely! we worked around the house again...gardening, cleaning and then drawing/doing photography with the girls (the youngest girl is teaching me italian). we had a HUGE lunch of which almost all the food we consumed came from their garden!
in a minute we are going off to have tea with their friends.
till next time...
