hey lovely reader

I am sitting in the Betti-Bus in Sorbas and writing the next update from Los Molinos de Rio Aguas…

Ayuntamento free internet is closed for some reason and we are trying hard to find other free possibilities of getting online…

Our favourite free-WIFI-spot also doesnt work today for some reason so we gotta find other solutions…

the others are hanging out in a bar now with WIFI… buying beer and coffee and stuff

But there’s nothing we wouldn’t do to get in the net!!

(weird kind of ecohippies… really… no shower sharing swimming place with wild turtles -but WIFI must be!)

We (that is -for the statistics- 6 people: 3 boys, 3 girls, from 4 different countries) are still in Los Molinos del Rio Aguas, in the water with river place - which is called like that as el rio aguas is the only river in this area that has water all year and not only in spring.

Henrik left to Sweden after an inspring talk about community networks producing goods to have a kind of “insurance” and start capital for alternative infrastructures…

This place here could be good place to start:

We heard a lot of stories about this place already and it is getting more and more.

We learned a lot already and I think it will get more and more.

Today “the boys” went to harvest caña with Jesus and the Sunseed people to repair the bridge over the river that Jesus built 4 years ago and that was broken totally.

We, the “squaws” stayed in the camp to cook lentechas (really good that we went to this organic farm and got 15 kilo sacks of grains!) and sauce with wild spinage and vinegretta (vinagar plant)

and prepare jam from jumbos (cactus fruits).

Ah, and of course taking care of our littel “goat monkey” Pocito… sweet puppy baby doggy dog

Today was linguistics misunderstanding day - long discussions about the words chaos disorder and order

Anyways it is really nice this language chaos we have here - 2 girls always chatting in Latvian and you only sometimes understand some words like “didgeridoo”…

the 2 native English speakers with their funny different styles (rasta-English and American)…

and then us 2 Germans who are speaking more German again as we are getting bored of all the English around us (as Sunseed is an UK project there is mostly English-speakers in this place)

Every once in a wile you hear some Spanish though…

We are now camping next to the river on the terassa of the sweatlodge, as we were kicked out from several parkings by landowners, police, etc… think we had to move 3 times or something within this village… anyway, it is much nicer there

Tomorrow we will go on with taller de puente (bridge workshop) and on Friday we learn how to make soap from olive oil and plants

We had an amazing contact improvisation workshop in the yurt in the weekend that Ieva and me prepared. Playing, touching, jumping round and getting very drunk

Hell that was fun!

More news… hmmmm

We now have better drinking water than before as we drove to 15km away spring, which has one of the best waters in this region and not only sorbas where drinking water sucks

Yeah, the drinking water problem… in 20 years Sunseed desert technologies could not find any solution to get water that state would prove as “potable”- filtering rain water, water from the springs nearby, all failed.

This makes living here - of course - less ecological and nice.

But there’s many other things to see and learn that make it a place worth staying for a much longer time…

You are running around in that surrealistic painting dominated by “pitas” (agaves), jumberos (cactees) and solar panels, palms and weird caña constructions, solar cookers and colourful handpainted sunseed signs explaining the gardens, the pump, etc…

Then there is the amazing mountains and the river and these funny old houses, some of them ruines…

and really nice people!

Well… look at the pictures

I said enouph

I’ll finish backuping fotos and then join the others for a beer and WIFI

hoping that Sam will prepare chapatis for tonight

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