When I started this blog I was thinking I could keep it updated on a regular basis, pretty often that is, but business as usual it did not at all turn into that. And so one month seems to have gone by since my last post.
Not that I really give a shit about it other than the fact that it just gets more and more in my mind to put on this god forsaken kind of paper. Being very two faced in the way that I prefer the physical paper but cant stand to write with pencil maybe I should close down the blog, print the papers and hand them out to whoever wants them. Weird thoughts that does not really add up to anything, enough gibberish I guess.
As of time one month does not really seem like a long one, thinking back it seems like a lifetime in some senses. So many things that happened, so many things that changed. For one thing I am very disturbed by the weather, kinda very stupid thing to be, but I am. Should be like summer according to me, instead I have experienced four seasons in one day.
Other than that one of my best friends here in Macedonia, also volunteer, got done with his volunteer service and therefore left the country. Of course a bit a sad, also been a strange kind of period seeing how I did a lot of things with this guy. But people come and people go.
The last couple of weeks has pretty much been about the great thing known to man as Couch Surfing!
For those of you not familiar with this great concept it is by far the cheapest and also best way to travel. You just apply on the site couchsurfing.org and whenever you are going somewhere you just use the site and see who might have a couch for you to crash on. So staying for free and also meeting pretty interesting people I believe.
I have so far only used the service as a host, so far had about 7-8 people staying. But had a great experience so far. Beside meeting interesting people and learning about different cultures, their particular trips and so on I have got one book and one jar of honey (for my bad throat). Oh and also this one guy fixed my door so it does not make the squeaky sounds anymore.
Also I have been doing some actual work, believe it or not :) We organized a cleaning day with an other organization and gathered people and went to this place known as Tumba Kafe and cleaned it. Though we where suppose to keep this up and maybe organize one cleaning day every two weeks this has yet to happen. Besides this I have helped out with some pre-work for a monodrama festival (building seating for the audience) and finally this very weekend I was in Skopje representing our organization. There was this big celebration for volunteer service in Europa, as it apparently is the year of volunteers. It was a great day with awesome weather and meeting up with good people.
Stayed for the weekend at an other volunteer's place, beer and good company. Also found my first vegetarian burger in Balkans, hurray! :D They had a wide range of this but I went for the seitan burger which I got recommended, also I have been meaning to try this seitan stuff out but never got around to it before. Anyway I really enjoyed it, though it was a bit to crispy for my taste.
Going back to Skopje again this weekend getting together with a lot of the great people who was at the on-arrival course and will probably try out some of the other burgers! Besides that my plan is to find this ice-cream place called Eskimo which is apparently the best in Skopje.
So long and thanks for all the fish, don't believe I got the last month covered in this post, but honestly I don't really give a damn and am just happy to got something down on this... piece of paper.
