Wednesday, March 21, 2007
Current mood: complacent
Let´s do a little recap on the farms that I have worked at in the last 6 months, shall we?
Farm no.1) Torino, Italy -- Duration: 2 weeks
*No work to be done, mean Romanian Kitchen lady
Farm no.2) Parma, Italy -- Duration: 1 month
*Good work, mean Suiss lady, last two weeks spent in/out of
hospital, 2 operations, unable to walk, from a venomous spider bite on heel
"Farm" no.3) Ibiza Isle, Spain -- Duration: 2 weeks
*More like spiritual dump run by a wacko. No work (of any purpose really)
Farm no.4) Ibiza Isle, Spain -- Duration: 3 weeks
*A REAL farm, run by Permaculture methods, excellent work, lots to be
learned.
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ANYWAY, onto life at a GAY FARM.
So life at the next farm, called Casita del Bosque and run by a man called Carlos, was pretty nice. The work was serious, for a change, a nice change, and the company pretty good. The other WWOOFer there was a small, blond little 20 year old Hitch hiker Canadian boy named David. We got along swell. Had a ball working together. Favorite moment(s) with him were, in particular, the two afternoons we spent working nude in the sunshine (Carlos had gone to town and it was so warm and sunny...) I felt a little sorry for David cause he was adored by Carlos and Carlos´ posse---a whole group of sophisticated Spanish gay men, which Carlos was always taking him to gatherings of...he was like a little golden angel to them all. Oh how creepy. But freaking hilarious.
Ánywho. At the farm there was also a man named Raul (an old ex of Carlos´) who was the farm accountant and lawyer and also his British boyfriend Mark was always coming and going. And then then there was Manu. Or more specifically, Manuel Emilio Maran Martin. Oh how very Spanish, and, otherwise known as: The Hippie in the Big Yellow Van.
The Hippie in the Big Yellow Van and LIFE in that Van.
So I have a confession to make: our relationship started before I moved to the second farm, and was ONE reason why I decided to go there. But we were only acquaintances at that point. I actually met him for the first time my 2nd day in Ibiza at a Permaculture workshop at Carlos´ place that the people at my "farm" had been planing on going to.
But I´ll try to avoid all the gushy details, cause those are just like walking through half-dried warm algae---really freaking gross but at the same time oddly pleasant. Or that´s how I feel anyway...
(---that was a VERY odd sentence that was just written...best thing to do: ignore it and move on ; ) Okay, so where was I? Ya. So. To make a long story short, as soon as I relocated myself to the other farm, he started in after my ass. And, because he was interesting and really freaking quirky (and AWFULLY handsome in my opinion), it wasn´t too hard to catch. So what kind of person is Manu? Well, he´s a 34 year old hippie. When in Madrid, he is disguised as a professional radiologist when he needs money to fund his lifestyle (contrary to some peoples opinions, life in a van DOES have to be financed. Ya can´t just get gas out of a river, don´t cha know) and is also an aspiring acupuncturist and Chinese medicine guru. When I met him in Ibiza, he had been living in his van for 8 months there, not doing a whole lot, just enjoying life. An interesting tid bit about our relationship to each other is that we are both Capricorns and are exactly 10 years and 10 days apart. In the Mayan astrology (yáll should look it up if you don´t know much about it, cause it´s the major FAD here in Spain now), I am a solar seed and he is a lunar seed. I could go on but I fear that it would just be putting more gushy algae under your feet.
Anywho. I worked at that farm for 3 weeks in the day and then spent the evenings and nights with Manu and his van. Every morning we woke up on a different beach to the sun coming up. All we had to do was just simply open the door of the van, crawl back under the covers and enjoy the fresh air, sunshine and GORGEOUS scenery. It was incredible. So, as you can imagine, when Manu asked me to go back to mainland Spain to travel around with him for a bit in his van I said "Yes." Tough decision, huh?
After spending the last night at an awesome rave in the mountains, we drove the van onto the ferry, and 5 hours later, were in Alicante, just south of Valencia. We spent a week driving around, checking out Northern Spain. Just when we found an enchanting little stone town way up in the mountains called Moia that we wanted to stay in for a while, Manu got a phone call. It was for a job. In Madrid. He needed money for his 4 month Chinese medicine certification course in Beijing coming up in June so how could he say no? He wanted me to come with him.
CONCLUSION:
So now I am living in Madrid with Manu (and his parents) and Manu is making use of his education working in a hospital as an x-ray specialist. Ya. Way exciting. But we do take off on the weekends and explore Madrid A LOT. So it´s all good. Plus, my current "legal" visa for the EU is supposedly "expiring" this week ( I believe that I am currently illegal and HAVE BEEN for the last 3 months, but more on this sticky situation later...ha....heee....), hence the bulletin I posted for South America. Once again, it is time to MOVE ON for our FEARLESS TRAVELER, ONWARDS and UPWARDS for our Adventure Junkie. Or DOWNWARDS maybe, since S. America is south....(As long as she can get past customs in Spain....) Time for her to RETURN BACK to the JUNGLES OF THE AMAZON, and explore Patagonia, SEE SOME FREAKING PENGUINS!!!!
**I have two months to "kill" before I have to be in Costa Rica and I am currently toying with the idea of traveling down to the tip of S. A. and then traveling all the way up the Continent to Costa Rica. I wonder if it can be done...(maybe with a plane at one point or something cause heaven knows I don´t really wanna go through Colombia now...) I´ve already journeyed across the whole Asian/Russian continent why the freak not the South American continent too??? HA! We shall see if it can be done in 2 months! WOO HOO! (So stay tuned cause there is BOUND to be some *more* CRAZINESS coming my way... and that´s JUST the way I like it!). HELL FREAKING YA!
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