My EVS in Andalusia 13

Yesterday, Sunday, 31st of January, Purchena was celebrating the “Día de la Paz” (“Day of Peace”).          

To remember the importance of peace in our lives and between all countries, the library of Purchena organised a colourful and lively handicraft marked on our picturesque “Plaza de la Luna” (“Moon Square”).                                                 

At 9am, we went down to the library to help the participants preparing their stalls, as well as our own representing the Erasmus + voluntary program and our own countries (namely Turkey, Poland and Germany). The day before, the other volunteers (Mine, Sevket and Renata) had prepared traditional Turkish food and Polish “pierogi” till late at night, whilst I was doing the dishes and cleaning tasks. I had found German “Milka chocolate” and “Werther´s Beste” candies in the shop, which released me from the duty of preparing potato salad. I will do it next week anyway.

Amongst stalls of dreamcatchers, jewellery, woodcraft, pendants, drawings, puppets, workshops for paper planes and loads more, we successfully started selling our food to the visitors.

After enjoying a free morning cappuccino in one of the bars, Renata and I returned to our stall, where the sun was burning our backs from behind. We enjoyed the warm, cheerful atmosphere and started singing, dancing and taking pictures.

At half past two, with the end of the marked, all the participants went to have lunch at a bar of the main square (outside with 19 °C), consuming an incredible amount of different tapas and deserts, accompanied by beer, wine, several shots of spice liqueur, baileys and a delicious coffee with “leche condensada“ (sweet cream) called “bombón”.

Not before 5:30 pm did we return to our flats, well drunk and in a jolly mood, but absolutely shattered. Half asleep I managed to watch another episode of “Game of Thrones” in Spanish before we went to Indalo pub to watch the match of Real Madrid and another Spanish team. The latter lost 6:0.

Trying to cure the hangover, I went to bed as soon as we got home.