Workcamp in Deutschland
"Do you wanna kill me?"
Stuttgart Forst 2008
von Oliver Marcel Huerta aus Mexiko
Hi, my name is Oliver M. Huerta Chavez from Mexico City, I have been international camp leader in Stuttgart Forest work camp to IJGD organization. This is the second participation in the same program and the reasons to come back, there were to improve the entire bad situation from the last camp in 2007.
I met my co-leader Daphne, she was so friendly, nice and so young. We were talking about ours ideas on the camp and I´ve explained that even with our ideas, we need first to see the behavior about the group, I am pretty sure that each group have special personality and we need to be compatible if we want to be leaders in the group.
Second Day July 05:
The atmosphere was nice, the place great location in the middle of the forest and the accommodation perfect, even with the terrible sounds beds, nice house and really enough space to spend a great camp into and outside. First, we went to supermarket to buy the staff, we were following the list and recommendation into the handbook, the first problem “my co‐leader always want to buy the cheapest ones for everything except her special and expensive bread”, this aptitude I don’t understand, the cheapest one for all the group but not for her?
Few hours after, the volunteers have been to arriving, very nice people, really friendly and we started our first meeting with a welcome drink, we´ve organized the cooking and cleaning teams After, I received a party invitation from Students Erasmus in Stuttgart University, I asked to the volunteers and we were agreed to be there, it was a nice party welcome and we started as a group from the first day in a local unusual big party full of new people… we have good memories since this day.
Third Day July 06:
We started with many integration´s games and we visited around the forest just to explain our next three weeks job, the day was nice and relaxes…
Fourth Day July 07:
The work is hard, but the group start to find identity with the defects, they makes jokes about voices and accents, we made groups to write a story and we interchange the stories to play it… at the end, we have finished dancing traditional Turkish songs… and eating Turkish candies, it was nice experience… to meet this culture and saw the videos from ours stories.
July 08, 09, 10 and 11:
The group is stable and now that they met each other, the Turkish goup and the Ecuadorian guy stated to be lazy. it's not a problem, it's a cultural way wo work just in the case if someone is watching you, but I know that they are macho man and they like challenges, well, we made competitions to carry all the Indian plans to the track, and guess... they are the best, now no onw in the group can say that the others are not working!
July 12, 13:
My co-leader invited another camp to visit us, it was a nice weekend, we were spending great time and we met really nice people…
July 14, 16:
My co-leader came to me and she told me that we spent to much the first week. We were talking about how we can resolve the problem, we find the solution and we continued the week as the first one… making competition with the Turkish and playing games, visit the town and talking about Munich trip…
July 24:
I have leaved the group on July 24, two days before it was finished my vis time and I asked my co-leader about if she can do alone….
My friends from the camp said that was niew end, but they missed me!!!
You still wonder why this report has the title “Do you wanna kill me”?
Our Camp was called “Do you wanna kill me”, in honor to Russian Federation volunteer and his particular accent, it was just during the time work, that he´s never stopped to say this fraise when he was tired and the work was not finish yet”.