Dorbiner Messe

Ok, I know I haven´t been faithful to you, I forgot about Blogging for a long time, but now I´m back. I don´t know if I should explain a little bit what I have been up to the last month but I will start with what I did last weekend.

There´s being a huge event here in Dornbirn and I was there, helping the people from Europe Direct and representing aha (and EVS of course) Dornbirn HerbstMesse

We spent 5 days explaining to young Austrian people about EVS and going abroad in general.



There was a little bit of everything from Vorarlberg and Austria in general (cheese, milk, pumpkin seeds, cars, beer, decoration, pools, restaurants, political parties, radio stations, TV, entertainment, social issues, etc)

We had a fishing game for little kids.

Hiking in Dornbirn

Last Sunday we organized a hiking day for the volunteers around here.

We went up to the mountain with the Karren and we walked until Staufenalpe, where we had lunch. While we were walking there we found cows that are taken there during the summer.





Then we continued until Rappenlochschlucht, that is an amazing natural cavity between mountains with the river beneath them.



It was a great day, and I will come back to this wonderful place soon!!!

On arrival Training Day 2: Lost in the City

Day 2 was really funny.


We had to do some tasks in the city center and take photos.








So we split into 3 different groups with 3 people in each one. They gave us a map and we started the City Surf!!!








Then we had to go to a certain point and buy food to make lunch!!! We had typical austrian recipes and it was delicious!!! We had liptauerbrote, Käseknuffle mit steirischem, bauersalat and apfelstrudel. We made the main course: Käaseknuffle, typical from Vorarlberg.







I think it was a great job, we all had so much fun, we ate a lot and we learned about typical food in Austria, and typical ingredients!!!

The best apfel strudel I´ve ever tried!!! (it´s like the third one but still, amazing!!!)


A night in the opera

That evening we had some free time and I wanted to go to the opera.

I manage to capture the russian speaking comunity! ejejej (they were Inga, Katka and Vlad)






We were very lucky as we could see Le nozze di figaro from a perfect place (though we were standing, but 3,50 euros, what else can you ask for!!) We only waited for one hour to get the tickets. And the opera had even subtitles!!! (English and German)





We were standing there!

On arrival Training Day 1: Getting to know each other

Vorarlberg Volunteers

After a long long train night (10 hours) we finally arrived in Vienna and met Inga (who was on the same train but couldn´t find us earlier)


As we had still time (we arrived at 7,30 in the morning) we decided to have a walk through the town (the others hadn´t being there yet) so I was guide once more!






They can speak by themselves but I think we had a great time (at least I had) and we covered the main monuments in Vienna. Then we had a coffee break at Coffee Museum and we went to the meeting point in Europa Haus.





It´s quite far from the center but it´s an amazing place!!! We had our meetings in the schloß (castle) and when we came in it had all the original furnitures and even Sissi´s paintings! We owned the China Room for those days.




That afternoon we tried to know each other a little bit better, we were only ten volunteers so it wasn´t so difficult. We spoke about where we came from and about our proyects.

aha Bludenz

Ok, yesterday it was my first day in Bludenz. I took the train and I was carrying a little map of the city. It was a marvelous day, shiny blue sky and the mountains looked so magnificent!!!




When I arrived I just felt something amazing, the whole city smelled like chocolate!!! Then I remembered, there is a Milka Factory in this town!!! I was very happy and when I found aha they told me it wasn´t that great, because when It smells like chocolate it means it will rain soon. I laughed but that evening started raining!! So it was true!! (ok I know is not a very good picture, but if you try hard you can see Milka factory far away eheeh sorry!)







Heheheh, well the thing is I´ll be giving Spanish lessons in Bludenz every two Mondays at 16,30 h let´s see if young people are interested I´ll try to do it funny (people from aha Dornbirn can testify I am, I hope heheh)














I loved this town and I´m looking forward to be there again as I saw there is a Second Hand Shop for books!!!