As part of it's campaign, called Green Footsteps, Roskilde festival in Denmark is sending out a "green" message: take responsability for one's own actions and how they affect the environment.
If one manages to take three of the four steps they are suggesting:
Throw a green pre-Roskilde party
Make a Green Camp
Support windmills in Malawi when you buy your ticket
Use public transport to Roskilde
than he receives an admittance paper to the Climate Community and gets special access to a central spot in the camping area Sunday 28 June before 20.00 when the area opens for everyone.
You can read more about it here:
http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/uk/about_the_festival/green_footsteps
I hope to get to work with my hosts at "La Canestra" into turning the party that is prepared for the 19th into a green pre-Roskilde party and to organise a camp at the farm so that the team from One Step can have that special access that they deserve. You can read more about the project and the team here:
http://1stepbeyond.wordpress.com/
Sunday, April 5, 2009
First LIVE written post
So until now I've been writing the content for this blog on Luisa's laptop but today while most of the family is at mass I get to write the first post from Noemi's computer. It's a very sunny and beautiful day and it's a pity to spend it inside but I have write that really enjoyed the cake the girls made yesterday and which I had for breakfast today. So great! And I'm back to eating fruits in the morning again as there where some pears, apples and mandarins laying around.
After breakfast we went with Rocco, a friend and guest of Pepe's to distribute some wood to people around Capitignano. First we went to Pepe's mother very close to the farm and she gave me the best present so far: a very clean sewed pair of pants I was considering of throwing away at some point because they were so badly torn. They now look like new! She's such a sweetheart.
Soon I'll start reading on the project in Scandinavia that I'm joining in May and in perticular on my part of organising an eco party in May or June.
http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/uk/about_the_festival/green_footsteps/
If you have any ideeas you'd like to share about organising such a green event let me know.
After breakfast we went with Rocco, a friend and guest of Pepe's to distribute some wood to people around Capitignano. First we went to Pepe's mother very close to the farm and she gave me the best present so far: a very clean sewed pair of pants I was considering of throwing away at some point because they were so badly torn. They now look like new! She's such a sweetheart.
Soon I'll start reading on the project in Scandinavia that I'm joining in May and in perticular on my part of organising an eco party in May or June.
http://www.roskilde-festival.dk/uk/about_the_festival/green_footsteps/
If you have any ideeas you'd like to share about organising such a green event let me know.
5th of April 2009
I came back to the agriturismo for lunch and found the living room full of clients so we first had to serve them but after we had a very filling lunch that ended with one of Bruna’s delicious home made tarts. I also wrote down a couple of children’s and checky poems from Rocco. The first one is about a man who goes to the boss to get paied but he is met with these logical arguments to why his salary is late:
“Lunedi te li darò
O martedì se li avrò
Mercoledì e San Clementè
Jovedi no ti do niente
Venerdi a questa ora
Sabato a buna ora
Se domenica non ti o pagato
Lunedì resiamo a capo”
It’s a good song to learn the days of the week for sure: lunedì, martedì, mercoledì, jovedi, venerdi, sabato e domenica.
The oher one is a prononciation game and it goes like this:
“Al pazzo di Santo Pazza
Una pazza lava una pezza
Pasa un pazzo
Con un pezzo di pizza
Ofre la pizza alla pazza
La pazza rifiuta
Il pazzo sincazza
Prende la pazza, la pizza e la pezza
E li buta nel pozzo d’al Santo Pazza”
After lunch and cleaning around the living room and kitchen I left Lindsey to finish cleaning and I went to bed because I had a bit of migrene. I woke up to find out Lindey, Luisa, Michel and Pio all left for the lake at the top of the mountain. Maybe I’ll convince either Lindsey or Luisa to write what they did and saw there. In a future post... Since only Pepe and two of his friends were around, Rocco and his wife, I decided to go back to the family house and use the internet. I returned at “La Canestra” only for dinner.
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
I came back to the agriturismo for lunch and found the living room full of clients so we first had to serve them but after we had a very filling lunch that ended with one of Bruna’s delicious home made tarts. I also wrote down a couple of children’s and checky poems from Rocco. The first one is about a man who goes to the boss to get paied but he is met with these logical arguments to why his salary is late:
“Lunedi te li darò
O martedì se li avrò
Mercoledì e San Clementè
Jovedi no ti do niente
Venerdi a questa ora
Sabato a buna ora
Se domenica non ti o pagato
Lunedì resiamo a capo”
It’s a good song to learn the days of the week for sure: lunedì, martedì, mercoledì, jovedi, venerdi, sabato e domenica.
The oher one is a prononciation game and it goes like this:
“Al pazzo di Santo Pazza
Una pazza lava una pezza
Pasa un pazzo
Con un pezzo di pizza
Ofre la pizza alla pazza
La pazza rifiuta
Il pazzo sincazza
Prende la pazza, la pizza e la pezza
E li buta nel pozzo d’al Santo Pazza”
After lunch and cleaning around the living room and kitchen I left Lindsey to finish cleaning and I went to bed because I had a bit of migrene. I woke up to find out Lindey, Luisa, Michel and Pio all left for the lake at the top of the mountain. Maybe I’ll convince either Lindsey or Luisa to write what they did and saw there. In a future post... Since only Pepe and two of his friends were around, Rocco and his wife, I decided to go back to the family house and use the internet. I returned at “La Canestra” only for dinner.
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
Saturday, April 4, 2009
Blog officialy opens
4th of April 2009
I woke up at 10, went for breakfast and than started work on the pavement. It seems to be ancient but it's probably of a more recent date but still I don't understand how it was done because it seems every time I put one piece in, another sticks out. But I want to finish this pavement so that the picture of the small one room church that the family has keys to is perfect. Right now because the “comune” decided to work under the pavement and didn’t put it back once it finished it looks under construction. During this time the girls, Bruna, Luisa and Lindsey were preparing some delicious pastas, ravioli and cakes.
And as everyday someone I didn't know showed up for lunch and started discussing passionately with Pepe and Bruna so at some point everyone was talking. It's something that I like about this place, that everybody seems so comfortable at the table and able to speak with such passion probably about small things but from what I've been able to make out also about subjects as religion and existence.
Anyway, even though the seeding season hasn't started here yet we went to pick up a plow from the field and brought it at home so that means Pepe is expecting to start work on seeding soon. After that was out of the way we went to search for mushrooms that Pepe calls “morghelle”. I had one before at the other farm and they are very tasty even uncooked. But we didn't find any, this time probably because of the cold.
This was the day when I got a ride to the family's private home not to far from the farm and agriturismo itself, about 10 minutes walking and got to use the Internet. So on the 4th o April the “La Canestra” blog opens officially on the world wide web. I just have to move the contents, I wrote so far on Luisa's computer, on the blog. Can't wait to share all of this with my friends and family and I hope this will be a useful tool for future volunteers coming to “La Canestra”.
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
I woke up at 10, went for breakfast and than started work on the pavement. It seems to be ancient but it's probably of a more recent date but still I don't understand how it was done because it seems every time I put one piece in, another sticks out. But I want to finish this pavement so that the picture of the small one room church that the family has keys to is perfect. Right now because the “comune” decided to work under the pavement and didn’t put it back once it finished it looks under construction. During this time the girls, Bruna, Luisa and Lindsey were preparing some delicious pastas, ravioli and cakes.
And as everyday someone I didn't know showed up for lunch and started discussing passionately with Pepe and Bruna so at some point everyone was talking. It's something that I like about this place, that everybody seems so comfortable at the table and able to speak with such passion probably about small things but from what I've been able to make out also about subjects as religion and existence.
Anyway, even though the seeding season hasn't started here yet we went to pick up a plow from the field and brought it at home so that means Pepe is expecting to start work on seeding soon. After that was out of the way we went to search for mushrooms that Pepe calls “morghelle”. I had one before at the other farm and they are very tasty even uncooked. But we didn't find any, this time probably because of the cold.
This was the day when I got a ride to the family's private home not to far from the farm and agriturismo itself, about 10 minutes walking and got to use the Internet. So on the 4th o April the “La Canestra” blog opens officially on the world wide web. I just have to move the contents, I wrote so far on Luisa's computer, on the blog. Can't wait to share all of this with my friends and family and I hope this will be a useful tool for future volunteers coming to “La Canestra”.
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
Friday, April 3, 2009
On Friday Italians eat out
On Friday after a full day's work we had the surprise of a full house of guests for dinner and since the atmospher in "La Canestra" is so warm and homey they started leaving at about 11:30. This was the fullest day for me having finnished the sheep and pigs places and also serving the guests and cleaning with the girls once everyone left.
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
Thursday, April 2, 2009
Catholic mass
2nd of April 2009
What a full and different day this was! When I got up I went to the family kitchen which also double as a restaurant and found Luisa there already at work. She gave me a bottle of warm milk for the lamb and I went to feed him. He's so small and fragile but I'm sure that with the attention he gets at the farm he'll grow into a big and strong sheep.
After that I had breakfast and as soon as Pepe came we went to work on the sheep enclosure. We did that until 9:30 when Pepe invited me to join him for mass. I was born a orthodox christian but don't practice it and don't consider myself a religious person, this was a catholic mass but I still went for the experience. Good thing Bruna found me a pair of Michel's pants as I hadn't any clean ones. I'm glad I got to go. It was such a mind boggling thing to see the little place where the nun was conducting her ceremony together with a priest with a slight lisp and a small and confused looking "altar boy" in his fiftthyes that always went ahead of everybody with reciting the verses. Everybody was there for the same reason though, to connect with something greater than themselves and together with the exchange of warm wishes and gestures it felt like a glorified hippie gathering more than a strict catholic religious ceremony. The feeling got stronger once everyone in the congregation received a small necklace and we started shaking hands and saying “pace” (peace) to one another. At the end we all kissed cheeks and went on out way. All in all a good experience and one that I would attend daily if only the wine and bread weren't just a tease.
After mass and returning home we started work again until lunch time which was at about 1 when Bruna called us with the help of a bell she keeps in the kitchen window. As with every meal since I've been here this one was an incredibly tasty one as well. After lunch Pepe and me hurried back down to start work. While pushing a stake into the ground I scraped a big chunk of skin of my pinky on another pole and I had to rush back to the house to find something to stop the bleeding. I quickly found the first aid kit, cut the extra skin of, washed the wound and with Lindsey's help bandaged the finger. Good as new and back at work. I really wanted to see that sheep enclosure finished because I started working on it from scratch. But after a while Pepe had to go into Capitignano and I went to help the girls carry some wood for fire from down the valley up to the house. I pushed the wheelbarrow and the two “bravisiomo” girls Noemi and Lindsey pulled. After a while Pepe returned and we started work again until dinner.
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
What a full and different day this was! When I got up I went to the family kitchen which also double as a restaurant and found Luisa there already at work. She gave me a bottle of warm milk for the lamb and I went to feed him. He's so small and fragile but I'm sure that with the attention he gets at the farm he'll grow into a big and strong sheep.
After that I had breakfast and as soon as Pepe came we went to work on the sheep enclosure. We did that until 9:30 when Pepe invited me to join him for mass. I was born a orthodox christian but don't practice it and don't consider myself a religious person, this was a catholic mass but I still went for the experience. Good thing Bruna found me a pair of Michel's pants as I hadn't any clean ones. I'm glad I got to go. It was such a mind boggling thing to see the little place where the nun was conducting her ceremony together with a priest with a slight lisp and a small and confused looking "altar boy" in his fiftthyes that always went ahead of everybody with reciting the verses. Everybody was there for the same reason though, to connect with something greater than themselves and together with the exchange of warm wishes and gestures it felt like a glorified hippie gathering more than a strict catholic religious ceremony. The feeling got stronger once everyone in the congregation received a small necklace and we started shaking hands and saying “pace” (peace) to one another. At the end we all kissed cheeks and went on out way. All in all a good experience and one that I would attend daily if only the wine and bread weren't just a tease.
After mass and returning home we started work again until lunch time which was at about 1 when Bruna called us with the help of a bell she keeps in the kitchen window. As with every meal since I've been here this one was an incredibly tasty one as well. After lunch Pepe and me hurried back down to start work. While pushing a stake into the ground I scraped a big chunk of skin of my pinky on another pole and I had to rush back to the house to find something to stop the bleeding. I quickly found the first aid kit, cut the extra skin of, washed the wound and with Lindsey's help bandaged the finger. Good as new and back at work. I really wanted to see that sheep enclosure finished because I started working on it from scratch. But after a while Pepe had to go into Capitignano and I went to help the girls carry some wood for fire from down the valley up to the house. I pushed the wheelbarrow and the two “bravisiomo” girls Noemi and Lindsey pulled. After a while Pepe returned and we started work again until dinner.
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
Wednesday, April 1, 2009
April's Fools Weather
1st of April 2009
The day started early. Both me and Lindsay got to speak with our parents back home. In the morning I got to move some wood with Luisa in the wheel barrow and after lunch I got to do quite allot with Pepe, moving recycled materials and poles for the fence and almost finished it until the weather played a 1st of April joke on us and it started raining just enough so that we couldn't continue working. During work though he told me we could go searching for mushrooms one of these days as the rainy weather might have helped them spring up. Can't wait for that. In the meantime we still got to work on our baskets inside; it's not called “La Canestra” (“The Basket”) for nothing. Yesterday we got to find out the meaning behind the name as well: Noemi was telling us that during harvest time in the special local baskets people used to carry bread and different other things so the basket became a symbol of the countryside and in the same time of bounty.
Before dinner we went with Luisa to visit some of her friends in the nearby part of the Capitignano. Leo, the huge white and friendly dog of the farm came with us all the way and today we even got to meet the two horses that live on the farm: Carboso the Andalusian beauty and the very old horse that along side Carboso seems like a pony.
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
The day started early. Both me and Lindsay got to speak with our parents back home. In the morning I got to move some wood with Luisa in the wheel barrow and after lunch I got to do quite allot with Pepe, moving recycled materials and poles for the fence and almost finished it until the weather played a 1st of April joke on us and it started raining just enough so that we couldn't continue working. During work though he told me we could go searching for mushrooms one of these days as the rainy weather might have helped them spring up. Can't wait for that. In the meantime we still got to work on our baskets inside; it's not called “La Canestra” (“The Basket”) for nothing. Yesterday we got to find out the meaning behind the name as well: Noemi was telling us that during harvest time in the special local baskets people used to carry bread and different other things so the basket became a symbol of the countryside and in the same time of bounty.
Before dinner we went with Luisa to visit some of her friends in the nearby part of the Capitignano. Leo, the huge white and friendly dog of the farm came with us all the way and today we even got to meet the two horses that live on the farm: Carboso the Andalusian beauty and the very old horse that along side Carboso seems like a pony.
Radu Burtescu - Romania, Constanta
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