Settling in
May 30
Welcome to Gvozd :)
The first couple days had been extremely fun, to say the least. Traveling was exhausting, but that was expected. I felt like a complete zombie, without coffee! We settled into our new home for the next two weeks - the Japanese house - which is a small house about a mile walk from downtown Gvozd.
The Japanese House
There was a gravel road that led to the house, and as we walked, we saw tons of houses, small farms, a dozen baby chicks, hens, roosters, dogs, laundry lines, a small super market, café bars, and houses. Here is what we would see every day during our walk to and from Suncokret.
The main street leading to downtown...
A general store on the corner of the main street and a larger highway
The small supermarket (with a small café on the back where we'd get icecream on a hot day)
This is a factory on the main road that was destroyed in the last war
A small farmhouse dating back to the 1800s
The house on the corner of the main highway and the gravel road that led to our house :)
The house sat on top of a small hill, where there were three outdoor showers. The water was held in huge black barrels that were solar heated. I only tried the outdoor shower once, it was too cold!
There were also outdoor bathrooms - they were like portopottys, but they used sawdust to cover your "business". AND they didn't smell one bit!
On the lower floor of the house was one bedroom where Adelita, our program leader, stayed. There was also a bathroom, a common area with beds that we transformed into two couches.
There was also a kitchen, and each day different pairs of people would make breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Breakfast normally consisted of homemade bread from the grocery store, jam, bananas, and cornflakes. Lunch and dinner we usually made whatever we could find - we ate salads almost every day, and sometimes meat and pasta. (Also, if you see in the picture of the kitchen, the small purple pail was our compost, and then we used it as a fertilizer in the garden!) After dinner we always made tea and devoured BOXES of biscuits. YUM!
The upper level of the house was our room. It was a huge open room with a few sets of bunkbeds. It was definitely interesting sharing a huge room with 7 other girls!
The first couple days had been extremely fun, to say the least. Traveling was exhausting, but that was expected. I felt like a complete zombie, without coffee! We settled into our new home for the next two weeks - the Japanese house - which is a small house about a mile walk from downtown Gvozd.
There was a gravel road that led to the house, and as we walked, we saw tons of houses, small farms, a dozen baby chicks, hens, roosters, dogs, laundry lines, a small super market, café bars, and houses. Here is what we would see every day during our walk to and from Suncokret.
The house sat on top of a small hill, where there were three outdoor showers. The water was held in huge black barrels that were solar heated. I only tried the outdoor shower once, it was too cold!
There were also outdoor bathrooms - they were like portopottys, but they used sawdust to cover your "business". AND they didn't smell one bit!
On the lower floor of the house was one bedroom where Adelita, our program leader, stayed. There was also a bathroom, a common area with beds that we transformed into two couches.
There was also a kitchen, and each day different pairs of people would make breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Breakfast normally consisted of homemade bread from the grocery store, jam, bananas, and cornflakes. Lunch and dinner we usually made whatever we could find - we ate salads almost every day, and sometimes meat and pasta. (Also, if you see in the picture of the kitchen, the small purple pail was our compost, and then we used it as a fertilizer in the garden!) After dinner we always made tea and devoured BOXES of biscuits. YUM!
The upper level of the house was our room. It was a huge open room with a few sets of bunkbeds. It was definitely interesting sharing a huge room with 7 other girls!
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