Interview with Mommo 1. Have you met with somebody from our project after it ended on August? In the winter with: Tsveti, Rashed and Diliana, we talked and met in Sofia. But from January with no-one, just you. 2. What countries have you visited after the project? (Right after my visit) Hungary and Serbia. 3. Biggest thing that had happened in your life since the end of our project? I stayed extra 4 months in Bulgaria. 4. Describe your most memorable situation from our project. When we arrived to Sveshtari and I saw a village (so different from my city or other cities and too small) no bars, not restaurants...and of course a bathroom, hahaha 5. What to you think about Bulgaria? At the begining I disliked it way too much. But when we visited other places I started to like it more and more, finally I stayed 4 months more in Sofia. I like Bulgarian people, so warm, food, and of course Sofia. 6. Write a little summary of our EVS project in your point of view. (What emotions you had, what to you think about project members etc.) At the beggining we arrived and we were all strangers but we spent a lot of time together. The worst for me was my allergy to flowers, first month was so bad in this sense. Work was nice, we learnt a lot of new things. I learnt a lot about Bulgarian history. 7. Feel free to share something else with other project members I keep a contact with lot of people from the project, of course a Spanish team we talk every week, but I miss everybody sometimes. It was an amazing and different summer. Almería diary I was attending classes in Estonia when I had this grazy idea to visit Spain, not an average beach vacation organized by travel agency, but a real adventure on Iberian peninsula. My aim was to visit all our project Spanish participants, but Hutman was in Italy, and he lives anyway in Morocco. My itinerary consisted 4 different Spanish cities: Barcelona, Madrid, Almería and Seville. I am glad that I convinced my classmate Madli to spend time with me half of the time of the trip. Greetings to you 😘 So, after spending time with Alejandro (the same guy who hosted us with Heleri in Albania) in Madrid I arrived by train to Almería. I have to mention that travelling by train is convenient, at least my wagon was quite empty and I had a lot of space. And it is so beatiful how the railway goes through the mountains. Others warned me about Andalusia's weather and said that Almería is pretty deserted place. When I was close to the city I had to agree. All I saw was mountains covered by sand. Mommo was waiting me in the train station and we went to the supermarket to buy ingredients for evening's mojito party. Then we head for Erasmus students' apartment. An Italian girl Francesca was kind enough to let me use her room while I was staying in the city. Such a nice act ☺️ Most probably she is the kindest person I have ever met. We always had nice conversations about life. Fra, tu sei una persona meravigliosa. Then we had an appointment in cafe Paris (a legendary cafe through Mommo's friends) with Luis. The conversations they two have together, huuh, even a group of girls is not capable to gossip so salty things as Mommo and Luis do. After joined an Albanian girl Emi, actually she was the first female Albanian I had talk to. In Albania I have never talked to a one. And then joined others and we went to the beach. Mommo prepared mojito into a trash box, but no worries, it was a clean one. And Augustín bought shisha, by the way he had visited Estonia, which is rare. Anyhow, the welcome party for me was surprising and cool. It supposed to be an Ibiza style party, where everyone should wear something white, but I didn't have anything white 😕 It was nice to do hookah outside, near to the sea. Usually we make it inside a room with my friends, you know, a cold country. But when the sun had set the temperature decended and I felt really cold. Fortunately a Mexican girl Brens gave me her jacket, by the way she was my flatmate. Pretty weird situation though, Estonian girl needs warmer clothes while a Mexican girl can stand the weather without it. I spent good time and at the end of the day we even made Mexican food in our apartment. Huuh, it was spicy but I had a great possibility to introduce Estonian sweets. It is amazing that Spanish people are in love with "Kirju Koer". Their grande amore. On the next day Mommo made a tour in local museum for me, Augustín and his cousin Juan Angel who came, surprise, surpise from Estonia because he is living here. It is a pretty big coincidence I would say. It was archeological museum, so reminded times in Sveshtari in the excavation site. After educational lesson about Spanish history we went to a bar. It was funny to see what a Spanish guy is missing from his homeland while he is living in a cold and boring Estonia. Later we went to Mommo's place, he has a nice Italian style home. Mommo made pasta for us and showed me photoalbum of pictures of our project. I also met Mommo's sister and Mommo's cute nephew, he is such an adorable child. Mommo went to work and I went to the beach. It was really hot but ultra windy day. Sand was so hot that it burned my soles, meanwhile water was cold. When I sunbathed all the sand flew on me and it was annoying. Beach was pretty much empty, because locals don't want to grill themselves under burning sun. Somehow I survived this time. I already burnt myself in Barcelona and was reddish as tomato. So it was hard to burn myself on a second time. Randomly I met with Emi and Francesca on the street after my beach experience and I had an opportunity to discover new part of the city. We visited a shop where prices were extremely cheap, it is such a pity that I had no space on my bag 😛 In the evening Brens guided me to the city centre. There were again new people for me. We visited tapas bars and celebrated Rafael's birthday. Even a small miracle happened, it rained about a minute. Unusual situation that it is raining in the desert, right? 😆 On my last day Mommo did me a personal tourism tour in Almería. We visited city centre part with historical buildings and a castle. Up there was a nice view to the whole city and sandy mountains. I got educated that even some scenes of Game of Thrones were filmed there. I have never read a book or watched the TV series but for now I am following the second season of the TV show. And I need to admit that it was true, I saw familiar places there. It was surprising for me that Almería has to offer nice beach vacation as well as cultural experience. After exchausting excursion tour we went to Mommo's family restuarant Sicilia a la Carta. We ate pizzas, they were really delicious. I love all pizzas that are prepared by a real pizza oven, it affects the taste so much. Then we went to Luis flat. He bought a kitten that day and I was interested in to meet with that little creature. She was cute but exhausted because of the attention that everybody gave to her. To leave aside the fact that kitten pissed on me, everything went well 😂 Before sunset we even did a quick swimming. Even though a late hour water still wasn't warm. On the other hand it is explicable, it was still a spring outside. In the evening we had a typical Spanish party. In Madrid I wasn't used to this partying tempo but in Almería I did my best to keep my eyes open all night long. Really, it is hard to start a party about 11 o'clock and after a few hours go to a club and party all night long. In Estonia we start much earlier 😊 Anyway, pre-party was in Emi's flat. At some point we let tireness came over us with Francesca and almost fall asleep. Others noticed that and said that it is clubbing time now. In Almería there is one club only and it is pretty small and full of Erasmus students. There wasn't even enough space for dancing. On Thursday evening it was so crowded, a bit weird. It was an useful experience and I am glad that I found that power and chose club instead of sleep. When we came back it was almost time to go to my bus. I sayed goodbye to all those wonderful people and headed to Seville. By the way, Almería's bus station is way more better than Barcelona's one 😛
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorJust another confused youth. Archives
November 2017
Categories |