Last night I played hide and seek with all the kids. I shouldn't call them kids, because they were my age: it was Seba, Maxxi, Andrea, Jose, Daniel, and another kid whose name I forgot. We started playing at around 9 and didn´t stop for two hours.
Hide and seek is called Esconder y Buscar.
The whole yard is so fun to play in because you can hide behind the well, behind the pool's fence, behind the house, under hay stacks, beneath tables on the porch. I am lucky I am small, because twice I hid beneath the bench right next to the base and surprised the seeker every time.
Seba liked to climb trees to hide. One time he climbed the roof, too, to hide, and brought his friend Maxxi along with him. His poor friend didn´t know how to get off the roof by the end of the game. I hid behind a curtain covering some old hardware behind the main house. At this time, Seba was the seeker. I think the game was approaching the end because I heard some kids telling him where I was staying. Through the curtain I saw him coming, singing and humming as he went, and when he was about to pull up the curtain, I screamed and exploded through the curtain like a crazy animal.
In the end I beat him to home base. The poor thing--I scared him half to death.
At another time I hid behind the fence at the swimming pool. I layed flat down on my back and just watched the stars. It was a half moon, and the light illuminated an almost imperceptible ring of clouds surrounding the moon. The stars are different in Argentina, and I am constantly fascinated by their arrangements. And then, bursting out of nowhere: a shooting star. My heart felt happy, and I decided to find my way back to home base.
Hobbit House Hostel, Las Malvinas
Our Mission - Nuestra Mision
Our Mission
Our Family Farm Hostel, on the rural/urban fringe of Buenos Aires city, is part of the Wellbeing Organic Network, www.wonfamily.net, and is affiliated with the River Lujan Basin Smallholders Association. At Family Farm Hostel we are focused on developing sustainable family-based lifestyles by providing our guests with a rich environment to enjoy nature, learn languages, exchange cultures and experience sustainable living through “ecovoluntourism”. In an educative home-away homestay experience, we cooperate to form examples of sustainable living by building natural constructions, keeping animals for dairy and draught power, cultivating the land organically and eating tasty healthy home-grown food. In an environment conducive to learning and experiencing new (and old) ways of living, we offer a Spanish/English Language School and a Sustainability School with people highly qualified in languages, natural construction methods, agro-ecology and permaculture. By choosing an ecotourist, ecovolunteer or language or sustainability student option, you choose how many hours you’d like to help out around the farm and what courses and activities you’d like to do. Regardless of how much you contribute, you will have the opportunity to share your ideas to better the project.
Nuestra Misión
Nuestro Hostal Rural Familiar esta basado en el desarrollo de comunidades sustentables centrados en la familia, o grupos familiares. Estamos afiliados con Los Pequeños Agriculturas Familiares de la Cuenca del Rio de Lujan y el Red Orgánica del Bienestar. En nuestro Hostal Rural Familiar, estamos interesados en dar a todos nuestros huéspedes la posibilidad de gozar de la naturaleza, aprender idiomas, intercambiar culturas y experimentar la vida sustentable a través del ecovoluntarismo. Vivimos juntos y cooperamos en cultivar la tierra, construir con adobe y materiales naturales locales y practicar la vida sustentable. Intentamos crecer orgánicamente a movernos hacia la autosuficiencia y a formar una Academia de Idiomas y Sustentabilidad. Nuestros huéspedes eligen ser principalmente turistas, voluntarios o alumnos de idiomas o la sustentabilidad en elegir cuantas horas de ayuda quieren hacer y que tipos de cursos o actividades. No importa con cuanto contribuyes, tendrás la oportunidad de compartir tus ideas para hacer este proyecto mejor.
Monday 8 August 2011
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