Movie Night

Last night we went with the girls on movie. I wouldn’t write here for it if it was only this. The fact is that this movie night was epic because we went to see the last part of Twilight in the biggest rain ever and of course as there wasn’t appropriate bus at this time we walk in the rain pretty much and it was really enough only going out to be totally wet.

The reason for our wet cinema night is that Zsofi, Marie and I like this movie and we also read the books, so it was really curious for us to see the last movie. As we like it so much and Iza haven’t seen it during the previous week four of us were staying every night till 1 or 2 to can see all of the other parts together so Iza can share this experience with us.

I really like the last part of the movie and it was so good to share this experience with my friends.

Teambuilding in the mountain

This weekend we were together with the people from AURI, my hosting organization, in one cottage in the mountain in the south part of the island. The view from there was amazing we were seeing Teide from the one side and the cities and beaches and the ocean from the other. Even with the pictures you can’t imagine how beautiful is there during the day and also in the night when all of the lights of the cities are on.

We could stay there and enjoy the view together with the cat of the house – Pancho. He was really caressing and I really enjoy in the evenings when we were making fire in the fire place and staying there just watching the fire and relaxing with Pancho in my lap.

During this teambuilding we played different games by dint of which we learn how to be a real team, to work together and to think always for all of the other people from the team. We learn how to express and explain the mistakes of the other people without hearting their fillings – to be assertive.

Really funny part was that we were cooking together – this was real pleasure for me. On the second day we made bread together so I showed to others what my way of doing it is. Everybody had a really good thing making by them the bread and preparing barbeque. The really new part even for me was that we baked the bread in old oven working with woods – you have to make fire inside for enough time to warm up the stones that is made from and after this put out the fire and put the bread inside to be baked from the heat of the stones.

I enjoyed very much this experience with my team. This weekend we became even closer friends and I’m pretty sure that this will help us a lot for our future work together.

On-arrival training

Last week we were in another town of the island - Candelaria. We were there on our on-arrival training for European volunteers. We were 27 volunteers the one who are on Tenerife and Gran Canaria. It was really great experience to get to know these people and get good friends with them.

I didn’t really expect that there are so many EVS volunteers on the two islands. Of course almost half of them were Germans, as I already told you here on the Canary Islands there are a lot. It was surprise for me that there were so many Polish people. There are also a lot of other nations such as Armenia, Russia, Greece, Slovakia, etc.

The training was really useful not only to make so many new friends, but also to have some really useful tips for my voluntary experience. I’m waiting forward to meet again all of my new friends again.

Tarta de tres chocolates

Ok so the cake – the preparation was easy and pretty fast just hour and maybe a little bit and after this whole night in the fridge of course. During the preparation we have had so much fun with Saray it was wonderful. Yes we are such a good tandem with her so we will cook more in the next 7 months.

As it was decided the cake was a surprise for Zsofi’s parents so we wrote on it WELCOME in Hungarian. It looks pretty nice as I’m totally not good in the drawing. But you can see it by yourself.

 When we showed them the welcome surprise they were really flattered. They are so nice people I’m happy that we made this for them. They were in home when we came back from the office and the warm very delicious lunch was waiting for us. And in the afternoon Zsofi’s mom made for amazing dinner. To can say thank you we prepared for them traditional canary soup for good buy this evening. Unfortunately they have to go tomorrow but we were so happy with them even only two days.

And the cake yami – I just can’t describe how delicious is it. Everybody is in love with it. Thank you Saray that you showed me the recipe of the three chocolate cake and made the welcome surprise so special.

My tandem day

So this morning I wake up early as I had meeting with my language tandem Saray in Santa Cruz at 10:30. Yes 8:30 in Sunday is early. So I went on the tram station but unfortunately there was 20 min till the tram which makes me late and I decided to go and catch the bus – yes 20 min more. And after waiting for transport 40 min which I could sleep I was in Santa Cruz only 7 min later.

Together with Saray went on the Sunday’s street sells in Santa Cruz. It was really funny – so many thing to talk about and explain in English and Spanish. Saray want to improve here English and I my Spanish. So couple of times we are just walking around some shops and I’m showing like a child the things and she is telling me in Spanish and me in English if she doesn’t know it. So the Sunday’s Mercado was really useful and funny with so many stuffs and of course we bought something.

When we were on the station she asked me what I’ll do in the afternoon. I said that we want to make a welcome cake for the parents of Zsofi, who are coming tomorrow. Than we decided that it’s a perfect opportunity to show me the recipe for the Three Chocolate Cake she have tell me about. So we went back and bought everything needed for the cake and Saray invited me in her home for lunch as her mom cooked typical Canarian dish today. I accepted and we went.

Saray’s parents are amazing people, so nice and warm. I also really liked her house its yellow. And here room full with butterflies, so beautiful. And the lunch was more than marvelous. It was ribs with corn and potatoes and everything with mojo souse. It was so delicious that I ate too much, now I’m having a rest before the preparation of the cake. Saray’s parents started to propose me different kind of deserts, but I was so full that I just had to decline them no matter how not polite it was. I’m feeling really guilty but they understood. This very nice people invited me to go again.

So now we are starting to make the “Tarta de tres chocolates”. I’ll share tomorrow how it was.

Online Party

This weekend is again 4 days. As 1st of November is Thursday and festival all of the people are skipping Friday and making bridge. Marie and Tanja went on Gran Canaria and Zsofi went to South part of Tenerife to welcome her parents who came in Friday. So Iza and me are in home alone. We spent such a great time together – just relaxing, having time for skipping with family and friends and so on.

But the greatest part was tonight. My Spanish group had a party in one of the guys for his Name day last week. We made an appointment and they call me on Skype. They switch on the camera and put the microphone on the middle of the table so I could hear all of them. It was so great just like I was, well actually I was on the party, but online. The feeling was incredible.

You know I’m here already two months and really missed this people, my friends from the Spanish course. We have been on courses three times per week three hours for two years and a half. We became so close friends that after the end of the last level of the course we continued to see each other every week. So yes I really missed them and it was astonishing that we are living in 21 century I could be on the party with them.

Now I'm waiting forward for them to come and visit me here and to go together on Teide.

Thank you for this incredible night my friends. I love you all.

Halloween

Hola,

Yesterday was Halloween and I organized together with all of the AURI people great party. You know this was my first Halloween, as we are not celebrated it in Bulgaria – it is Catholic festival and not Orthodox. Yes of course lately most of the bars are doing themed party this evening, as most of the commercial festivals nowadays.

Together with my flat mates made a themed make-up with spider webs and spiders and all of us were with black clothes. It was really funny because we prepared for the party couple of days before trying different types of make-up and so on.

On our Horror night party came people with such a great costumes that I couldn’t recognize them – real zombies, vampires and all kind of undead creatures. I was amazed. I just walk around and enjoyed the view. I’m so sorry that I couldn’t take photos with all of them. Well here you can see some of the photos I did. Thank you for the great party guys.