After the Christmas holidays we concentrated on project writing. We and two local volunteers Marinella and Jacopo wrote a youth exchange for the last deadline of Erasmus+ projects (2nd of February). The topic is road safety and sustainable mobility. It is an interesting topic to discover in South Italy. The rules here and the traffic culture compared to the ones in Estonia are like day and night. It seems to a foreigner that here are no rules, but actually the Italians know what they are doing. Here we just need to adapt to the craziness. We are planning to make the exchange in collaboration with Ciclofficina. They are the best partner because our project involves bike culture. If our youth exchange is funded by Erasmus+ it will take place in October with participants from Italy, Estonia, Hungary, Spain, Greece and the Netherlands. San Cesario – A casa della nonna, della mamma e della zia di Sara One day, when we were working in KiioLab, our dear Sara invited us to San Cesario di Lecce. First we visited Sara’s grandmother in her huge house. Of course we had a coffee there and heard interesting stories about the witches of the Marzo family. After we went to Sara’s parents' house, and finally Tairi got the dearly loved guitar from them. It is a little bit old and had broken strings, but our dear friend Francesco repaired it and now she’s practicing a lot. She already knows one song: “Smelly cat” (from the TV series "Friends") :D. Our last stop was the house of Sara’s aunt. Che bella la casa! She was very kind to us. We tried her homemade Limoncello (lemon liquer) and Mirto (liquer of myrtle berries). We were speaking only Italian with all of them, this is the best way of practicing the language. Also, you should know a lot people want to try the famous Hungarian gulash soup version by me (Sofi), but all the time I had an excuse why I couldn't make it. The last one was: “I don’t have any bay leaves”, but Sara’s aunt had a bay bush in the garden, so I got some leaves (Thank you again!!). So I will make gulash one day, I promise. Focara In the middle of the January we visited Focara festival in Novoli (city/village near Lecce). It’s a 4-day fire festival held every year. We went on the first day and there was so much fireworks that it felt like New Year’s Eve (especially because on NYE there was almost no fireworks). Meeting a Minion, Tairi loves them, Sofi hates them.. In the end of the night I (Tairi) noticed that my iPhone was missing. Aaah, why mee! So everyone started looking for it on the square. Then I remembered that I probably left it in the toilet, where I was using it to show light. So we checked all of the toilets.. nothing. Then we met a police guy who said that no one had brought any phones to him. Sara left her number to him just in case and we started going back home. I was so sad, the previous month my bike was stolen, now this month my phone, what will be next? On the way to the car Sara’s phone rang.. “Hey, this is the police, we have found your phone”. Nooo way, thank you universe or someone, I was very lucky. At home I discovered that the SIM card was missing. We were wondering if someone stole it, threw away the SIM, but then lost the phone again?? Or threw away the SIM but then started feeling bad about it and returned the phone? Anyway, it doesn’t matter, I am so grateful and happy that I got it back.
The crew Trip to Otranto When Bogi (Sofi’s coordinator from Hungary) was still here, our dear friend Giorgio took us to Otranto by car. It is a beautiful city on the seaside, around 45 km south from here. We had an amazing day discovering the coastline of Salento, the city of Otranto and we had a good homemade lunch on the beach (Estonian and Hungarian food). MORE TRIP-POSTS COMING SOON!
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