In Terchova we were staying in a hotel where most of the participants had arrived the night before but I must say I didn't feel aside of the group at any moment. When we arrived we entered kind of a bar room that we used as a normal meeting room, with all the chairs making a circle. People had just introduced themselves, writing their names down in a big flipchart where the map of Slovakia was drawn, in the place they lived. Matiss and I arrived with perfect timing to write our names down in Bratislava, with Marie, Aida and Azahara (the only three other volunteers that we had met before getting there).
We made the basic exercises of talking about our hopes and fear about the training and put them in common and then I can not tell what came next. It's strange but still true, it's been so intense, so many activities, and games and information and learning that I don't remember certainly the exact schedule. Anyway, I had a great time (aham! so Gerold face just came to my mind because one of the first games was drawing your partner only looking at his face, not the paper, amusing it was!)
Maybe what I liked the most was the hiking trip to a little mountain 40 minutes walk from our pension in Terchova. It was quite exhausting for me since I'm always telling myself when doing hard exercise I would need some more resistance, but I made it! When I felt really tired I took a minute for me and waited for my body to calm down hugging a tree (so much better than sitting in the snow, yap), just as you can see here.
When going down the mountain I made some 'freestyle', sometimes looking for a shorter way between different levels of the path, and then once I made kind of a snowboard but without board (but my bum) and got a little bit diverted from the way, but my partners were kindly waiting for me and guiding me from a short distance. And as Sona, this lovely experienced woman said, 'do it your way!'. Also, here's a picture of the rewarding view from the top and a group photo of the people that went there (it's not family picture because some people are missing, I think we didn't took any, such a pity!)
This was just one of the many things we did that I enjoyed a lot, but actually, as I said in the evaluation session at the end of the training, for me every single moment counted, I was living the very present and enjoying every single thing. That's something you can not say everyday, but probably we'll need to change that, right?
Just a quick list: the billard, the games, the year of my life, the atmosphere, the meals, the landscape, the people, their laughs, the exchange, the learning, the connection, happiness. I already miss some of this guys, especially Alex asking me about how to say pervert stuff in Spanish or just greeting in the morning, 'buenos días, chiquita!', or Mariano playing guitar and singing 'his way', or Elena and Tamara speaking Spanish out of soup-operas.
It was an absolut pleasure to meet them all and I'm sure we'll meet sometime soon -Maria and Mariano are arriving tomorrow, actually, so you see we don't waste time!
Life the very moment, enjoy the very present :)
Hugs, g'night!
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