Good day. I'm sitting in Mexico City at the airport. In 2 hours my flight is going to London to Europe and then to GERMANY!
to Berlin, to be exact, where I am picked up by my aunt and my cousin Niklas Jutta. A RIIIESEN THANK YOU AT THIS POINT:) Then are 5-day evaluation camp (back in Berlin-Kreisau) and then I return to Dortmund-Mengede. Finally! I can not wait honestly. At last, family and friends to see again and again slip into the "old life" before the study begins.
My service in the Albergue Infantil Salesiano is so over. The final stage was very stressful, so I had no time to blog. The
long pause I'm sorry, but I had simply "fed up" and needed distance. I ask for understanding. I have Friday, 25.6. had my last day of work and was approved at the Rosary of nuns and children. To tears I was honestly touched nothing. I was rather glad it was over. I had the feeling that I had to work during their studies in the last few weeks a little "worn down". Since I have not received training for teaching with rebellious children, I let affect me very often too emotional. I would just have to stay cool from the outset if the guys do not work or do things around and submit to beat so I'm unfortunately too late understood ...
the end, when I had it then understood to remain calm and tell me of the guys no longer have had frustrating (It's just corrosive if its own authority is found not only in question but is kicked by some children with foot and one therefore needs to be loud), I was almost ready. I have had too much frustration before I learned that you can in many situations the only faculty not "win" right, that you should not let too many nerves in order to maintain his authority. One gets then just by other means. For example, Saturday no television for children annoying.
That same Friday, it was farewell evening for evaluation camp Siijuve near Toluca (about 16 hours bus ride). I had many of the questions that came up there (for example, whether and to what extent it has changed over time, should that be better, what has brought my work, etc.) throughout the year has over and over again. Why was the camp (for me) rather boring, even when it interesting was the Mexican volunteers to learn to leave for Europe. For organizing an extensive (unfortunately, sometimes redundant) final evaluation is certainly useful.
After four days of camp I visited with Robin and Felix Sara (from Stuttgart, Volunteers in DF) in order to get an impression of the capital. I was absolutely pleasantly surprised. The highlights for me was one of the dark hardwood floors in Sara's WG to turn broadcast the feeling in the club, and to feel totally normal as white, because it is by no means the only one and shopping at Zara.
I am the whole "Gammel clothes" really sorry: the whole year in a flip flop, shorts and T-shirt travels well, you get (at least I) really like on shirts, nice shoes has so fortunately my Sara (the malls and chic clothes throughout the year to be had (and has not lived in the poor Chiapas!) slowed down to spend the money. I found everything so incredibly great, I would have bought the whole store when no one would have stopped me. By DF
went from there to Guatemala and then to Honduras. The following stations were on the agenda: Lago de Atitlan, Antigua, La Ceiba, Trujillo, La Moskitia, Utila
highlight was our trip to the Moskitia. This is a rain forest area in eastern Honduras, adding there is no infrastructure. Roads, electricity, running water, cars, alcohol - nil. I got there, the adventure found that I had been looking after a year or Mexico. Robin and I include three days through the jungle trudged. To Pico Dama (800m) tall - that was exhausting! Have stayed in a wooden hut in the rainforest, we washed in the river, drink from this very, with our indigenous guides rice and beans cooked above the fireplace and watch wild monkeys. As interesting as it was, I was glad to get the week back to civilization.
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would conclude I have to thank all my sponsors! I'm incredibly happy to have made here this year. Without you this would not have been possible. What I "take with" will turn out well only in Germany, because I'll need some time to discuss all their experiences and are perceived to reflect and classify my experiences.
I'm sure the best of my service done and exhausted my possibilities in the children's home to have and I can with a calming feeling to leave for home.
Boarding begins.
your Ben
