When I was going to the project, I was worried a lot that I would not have enough money for food. But the other EVS volunteer Jesus assured me that there would be no problems with food. So it turned out! In the first month of the project I went through the school of Mr. Bradman “school of survival”. Matthew Bradman is my new friend in Lecce, he is a guy who moved to Lecce from England and who is carrying a lot about recycling and ecological style of life. So I was introduced to the concept of bindipping. It turns out that there is a cafe near the office, which at the end of each working day throws out products that they have not sold. They kindly separate sweet and salty food in different packages, but sometimes you can find traces of coffee, but it does not matter. Usually there you can find calzoni and pizza still warm. Also in Lecce there is a separate waste collection. Therefore, if you learn the schedule for collecting of the garbage, then on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays you can find products in the garbage cans of supermarkets with the expiry date of which is near. On our very first trip with Jesus, we found a year's reserve of coffee, various yogurts, cheeses, sausage, pasta and fruits. Another important thing is our joint dinners in the office. Everyone brings something from home or some food found in the supermarkets’ cans and we prepare dinner together. So we have eaten often and in excellent company. Our Italian friends have often invited us to visit them for Sunday lunches. It is enough to bring something to the table, and home-made Sunday lasagna will melt in your mouth. And the collective process of cooking units a lot. During the bike tour, the initiative organized by Vulcanicamente, the participants Jesus and Azzurro invented a new challenge for themselves. Do not spend on food a cent. How have they managed to figure it out? They simply started asking in the grocery stores if they could give them from food, and the sellers never refused to do so. Upon returning to Lecce, we made a trip around the nearby canteens and asked them to not throw away the leftover food at the end of the working day, but to give it to us, the poor European volunteers. So we solved the issue with the dinner. We ate different and various food. Two rules that I understood thanks to my Italian friends, if you don’t ask, you won’t get an answer. If you do not try - you will not achieve the goal.
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