Juan acaba de irse. La cronica de su segunda semana en Villa Ana - Juan is left. His second week in Villa Ana

Juan acaba de irse. Despues de dos semanas llenas de actividades y sobre todo de humanidad, nuestro nuevo amigo de Korea terminó su recorrida argentina y volvió a su pais. La verdad es que fue una experiencia importante para el grupo, dos semanas que nos permitieron, por primera vez, de trabajar de una manera exclusiva con un solo voluntario. Sin duda esto se reveló en el mismo tiempo mas facil, por lo que fue la organizacion practica de las actividades, pero un poquito mas dificil por lo que concernió a la gestion de el tiempo. Saben, una cosa es compartir una experiencia de voluntariado con otros 10 chicos que llegan de todo el mundo, otra cosa es tratar de recrear esa misma energia de intercambio cultural tipica de un clasico campo de trabajo con una unica persona. Al final, el resultado fue entusiasta: Juan llegó en Villa Ana como extranjero, pero, en dos semanas, logramos de convertirlo en un nuevo miembro de Quebrachito, uno de nosotros, sin diferencias.
De todas formas, las palabras en estos casos siempre sobran; como con la pasada semana, quizas puede ser mas interesante leer la cronica directa de Juan sobre su ultimos siete dias en Villa Ana....

Time flies.
I really liked this place but a person who has to go should go.
This week was calmer for me because I could be accustomed to living a life I Villa Ana.
I did vegetable garden work more than last week and we can see the difference between the first and now. (actually, however hard I worked, I was definitely slower than my friends. )
This is my first week.





This is second week.
(to tell the truth, in the middle of our work, a tractor driver helped us. Haha!)

When we took a rest, I lay and slept under a beautiful sky and gorgeous sun with warm wind. That was one of my best time during each day. Hm..it’s not because I didn’t want to work, okay? Haha)

I attended one more Italian class which Mauro is a teacher for this village. It’s a Spanish class for me. For 2 weeks, I learned important verbs, practical sentences and basic structure how I could make sentences. I absolutely didn’t learn Spanish in Korea. Maybe I can say that I never heard Spanish in Korea or I don’t remember because I didn’t know about this language. Mauro told me that the more we learned languages, the easier to learn other languages. Well, it can be excuse but for engineering students, it’s hard to learn other languages except English. Yeah it’s excuse. Learning Spanish from Mauro was a very good chance so I’ll try not to loose this good chance after going back to Korea.

Pablo hyung is back. It’s same as in Korea that when a friend is back from a journey or business, we get together and drink. Pablo hyung prepared a special mint alcohol named Branca Menta which I tasted for the first time.

Luciano cooked another typical Villa Ana’s food again. The name of food was “Estofado de carpincho” which Mauro called ‘water pig.’ It was really good. He cooked it with pasta and he made another soup. The soup was made by potato, milk and special argentine pepper which is never spicy. I’ll try this soup afte r going back to Korea. It was really good. (well, sometimes my friends ask me “are you hungry?” maybe I eat a lot or always look for a food. haha.)

Oops, I tried to take pictures of foods which my friends made but I always forget to take a picture of foods that Mauro made. He is an amazing chef. Actually, he worked as a chef in Australia. Whenever he cooks, I’m happy. Haha.

Mauro and I went to Villa Ocampo to buy a direc t bus ticket from Villa Ocampo to Iguasu. We could find a bus ticket from Villa Ocampo to Iguasu in Villa Ana but it goes via 3 cities. That’s why we decide d to go to Villa Ocampo. (Actually, Mauro decided that we should go to Villa Ocampo to buy a direct bus ticket.) Somehow, we could buy a bus ticket.
And then what I really wanted to buy was a matte because I really loved matte in Argentina. I bought mate, yebra, bombilla. . Everybody told me that it’s expensive to buy a straw for 30 pesos but isn’t it really a good deal to have one in my life? Haha
Finally, we went to an internet café and I asked the manager whether I could connect internet with my laptop. So she answered that I should wait until she calls an engineer. So I waited and waited but nothing happened anymore. So Mauro confirmed again and what I understood was totally wrong. She had told me that I couldn’t do it because it is so late that engineer was gone. Yeah~ trying to do by myself was good but I wasted my time to access internet. What if Mauro didn’t confirm again? maybe I just waited thinking why the engineer was so late.

On Thursday, we went to Villa Guillelmina. First, we visited an office of the president of this village and we heard about the history of this village. Fortunately, I and Mauro could receive a flag of this village.

And then we went to a school which was the most important thing on that day. The situation was totally different from when we went to Tartagal last week. On last week, because we interrupted their class, they were very pleased and they wanted to listen to us more. But this time, because we interrupted their import ant basketball and handball match, I could feel that many of them wanted me to stop talking, I spoke all what I wanted though. After finishing our presentation, I was going out of the school but my friends called me. The studen ts asked me something including what music I liked. I said reggaeton which was absolutely my mistake. Suddenly, they were excited very much and they wanted me to dance. Well, I waited for the music to be changed because I really cannot dance with cumbia. Anyhow, I danced with some of them which I really enjoyed. Haha!
After that, we went to visit an institution which encourages students from different village to come here and give them an experience of staying out of their home. It’s purpose is similar to Quebrachitos but more improved one. Because of Quebrachitos’ international exchange style, they could think that they wanted to absorb this group, I thought. Well, I hope it would not happen. I want to see how Quebrachitos develop by its own way not by other bigger groups because I want Quebrachitos to maintains its own way.

After that, we went to someplace. It was full of peace. After having a lunch, we walked this peaceful place which just looked like a natural park interviewing with Mauro for each person. With these guys, anything is funny and anything is special.
At night, I could join a BBQ party. Wow!! It’s not common to have this kind of atmosphere in K orea because I live in Seoul. We go to MT about twice or three times a year and only on those days I can f eel this atmosphere. Even though I cannot speak Spanish, I could enjoy very much. Hm..because most time, Mauro translated for me. The sky was so beautiful. Oh, I should leave here.. I watched stars in the sky for a long time after finishing the party.
Lastly, I want to put one picture of Mauro’s meals. Every time when he cooked, I felt like bei ng in a restaurant. This is just his normal cooking.

In two weeks, I was very happy. They gave me a real friendship. I really enjoyed.
But it doesn’t mean that I didn’t do what I should do. Whatever my Quebrachitos friends say, I did a good job. Haha! Well, I slept very much…colgado!!

I’m not a cool guy so whenever I say goodbye I feel very sad. Surely, it’s not easy to come to Argentina from Korea even though I want very mu ch. But, I’ll be back. I wanna see my friends again. I don’t know when I can come here again PERO, Ya Vuelvo.