We -that’s 6 people- arrived in Montpellier after a week of freezing high up in the mountains with totally shitty infrastructure and not really being able to organise anything at all. So most of us were hoping for lots of warm rooms and lots of internet

We thought to have arranged some places to stay via couchsurfing and hoped to have a good and stable basis from where we could organise stuff, like contact/call other projects, update the blog, etc…

Somehow things again didn’t come as they should (- well, propably they came exactly as they should but not as we hoped…;-) )

First of all some couchsurfers who had offered us enouph places for all of us didn’t answer any more. For the first 2 nights we found a nice but small place to stay -and a shower!!!- in the flat of some students on exchange, Andre and Claudi from Germany, Elisa from Italy, and 2 other guys from Brazil and Spain.

But as I said it was REALLY small - and they had only WLAN from the neighbours why we also couldn’t work efficiently there (as we don’t get wireless working on several of our computers -> rareness of linux drivers for wireless cards… )

Whatever, well, we had to leave there again and 3 of us had to stay in the busses again… Which wouldn’t have been so bad for 3 people, but for some kind of strange misunderstandings it would be getting more and more people who had to stay in there: First Aris and Peter came back from Nice earlier than we had expected (Tuesday and Thursday sounds quite similar!) and then Marcus just showed up out of the nowhere… so 6 people in the 3 busses again…

While the white-bus-team was busy taking care of gas bottles and trailor wheels and while Peter spent most of the time hanging out in MacDolandia (free Internet-land),

we (Anja, Sam, Birgit) were so lucky to be able to be in the place of a friendly family that we also met via couchsurfing.

The father, who originally comes from Senegal, was a university professor for educational science (specialised on health education) and is now building up an <a href=”http://ifelnet.eu> e-learning entreprise </a> based on moodle (open source e-learning software). So we heard some about e-learning and talked with him about a world without universities - but with theoretical learning via the www and practical learning in other places, like e.g. entreprises.

The mother is a psychologist. She practised a lot of french with us (whereas the rest of the family spoke English), cooked very nice(!) and tought us how to make joghurt (in the way she did it when she was living in Senegal with her husband).

The daughter is a great photographer and wants to become journalist (she was happy to show Peter all her photos:-) ).

Then also a cousin lives there, but we actually didn’t get to talk to her so much, and we also met the brother on one evening when we cooked (typical German) Käsespätzle and (Austrian) Kaiserschmarrn for them. And not to forget the cats! (the inside and the outside cat)

It was good experience to spend some time in such a hospitable french family, speaking french, cooking and eating good food, exchanging some ideas, having the chance to wash our clothes and after long long time having the chance to spend some time for ourselves and read together….

so now we are off to the beach, unreachable doin some group selffinding process stuff or something like that

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