Here I am six weeks into my
thirteen week placement. It is all passing very quickly and we are trying to
pack as much as possible into our remaining weekends. I have had such a great
experience so far. I was pretty down before coming out here applying for jobs
day in day out and not getting any interviews and not being the best candidate.
Here everyone is treated as an equal and the work that is being done is appreciated
which is so refreshing.
I turned 24 on Sunday and I
couldn’t help but think that when I was 18 I thought that I would have my life
sorted out by this stage. I do not and that’s okay because one day I am going
to do something amazing and until then I am going to enjoy getting there! I
spent Saturday in the sun in Ubeda and then we went bowling and for the first
time that I can remember I did not come last! We then went out for a few cheeky
beverages on Saturday night and partied Spanish style until 6/7 in the morning.
On Sunday I got to catch up with family and friends on Skype and at the flat we
celebrated me getting older with homemade chorizo sausage rolls and a banoffee
sundae made by Marcus (Thanks again!) It was a chilled out weekend spent with
some awesome people!
I was overwhelmed by the number
of people that made the effort to send cards out to Spain as I thought my
birthday may pass relatively unnoticed at home. It was great to put them all
together and receive air mail. Thank you all! My parents kindly send me over a
new jacket so now when I socialise I do not have to smell goaty, delighted does’t
even cover it.
Work never fails to amaze me.
Every day Elysia and I come home with a new story. It ranges from the tractor
roof blowing off, a goat death/birth or some misinterpretation due to us still
finding our feet with the language. Take for example me trying to explain to
the farmer in Spanish that I worked with polar bears in Scotland and they liked
eating mayonnaise. This is not exactly a common sentence in English never mind
in Spanish.
Last week I said there were three
kid goats born and now I can report that there are over forty! In one week!!
They are just popping out everywhere. At one stage on Tuesday there were three
giving birth at the same time. The speed at which they come out is crazy and
within five minutes the kid is standing and after half an hour they are running
around. It is so sweet having so many baby goats everywhere. They are so
playful and inquisitive. And if that wasn’t good enough there are also piglets
on the farm!! They are the cutest things ever and the runt of the litter fits
into the palm of my hand.
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Yesterday we also had to deal with
a goat giving birth while in the milking room. Had the goat been standing up
this would have been a simple task of taking its neck out of the hold and
taking it out into the shed. But no of course things were not going to be easy;
the goat lay down and made the process a whole lot more difficult. After
much deliberation the mum was out of the hold and the baby was happy and
healthy!
The milking room is proving to be
a place of risks as just before the above birth I was approximately one second
away from getting diarrhoea all over my face! I luckily managed to run away
just in time (running and screaming) but now I am terrified as it has happened
to the farmers’ daughter and wife already. With this in mind today one goat ‘fired’
its poo across the milking room and it narrowly missed Elysia. I feel like it
is not a case of if it will happen but when and I am not looking forward to
this day.
I will keep you all updated on
the poop developments.
Laura xox
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