An other day with simple, great people.

The night was short, i was waken up by my neighbors who started a fire and telling stories, selling like wolves once in a while making very animalistic noises some other times.., Crazy but great people around here. i finally get a bit of sleep and wake up to some new neighbors. Two girls, Sarah from Switzerland, Christa from Germany and a Frenchman, Julien. Julien is looking for a ride further out into the west, he only stayed a couple days. He is a medical student and works in a hospital. He is very happy to be away from all the stress and we joke about the little contradiction that you sometimes find in the camp. Hippies with those very trendy plastic sandals that he wears all day at hospital and cant see anymore, those couple bosses that organize everything and are always full of great ideas and projects but whom you never see actually do something etc... The normal stuff you find in any society.
After the first food circle we all relax in the shade, take a nap, read a bit and chat around. Julien found his ride and left, I for my part meet a German brother who is driving down to Greece to sell his van and has plenty of room! So he can take me to Macedonia! We met that Frenchman, Timothe, whom i was cutting vegetables with yesterday and as we sit in the evening circle, he pulls out cheese and bread out of his bag. He has been round for more than a week already and for him it is a great achievement to finally have bread again. he is a real Frenchman after all :) So we share some of his delicious fresh goat cheese and bread before getting tonights meal which has been prepared by the Czech brothers and sisters. As before every food circle, tonights activities are announced and we decide to join the Yugoslavian history workshop.

The sign that are all over the place, despite them, one brother wil run around naked, choking the Nons.

It is held around a fire, Otman passing roasted hemp seeds around and telling his story about Yugoslavia. It is a long story which i might tell soon in a separate post. The mood is very relaxed and more people are listening very carefully than in most lectures i attended at Uni. After he has finished, questions are asked about the subject and many others, we start talking about universities, creating new schools of knowledge and have more talking circles like this one. We also mention that the activities proposed at the gatherings are becoming fewer and try to argue about the reason for this. Some say it is a general thing, that more and more people just shlap along as one would say.
After the talking circle, i join Timothe spot for sleeping and finally find a real flat spot! Timothe has a very nice sleeping spot ,his mosquito netted hamac is covered by a tent tissue to protect from wind and rain. Under this he can stand, store his bike and bag and sleep in any weather. Much better than a tent and way lighter! of course you dont sleep 100% flat and are not protected from the wind but who cares in this hot summer.

Morning light in the camp