Freddie in wonderland...

Hi everyone,
some of you might wonder where I’ve been hiding myself… well, almost in the middle of nowhere… but it’s like a wonderland. The internet connection still runs on the telephone line, which means a 64kb speed… mobile phones are almost useless and life is so much slower…

I spent my last year writing my final dissertation at the University and I lived in the city centre of Rome, now I am here



Life here is very very simple, let’s say BASIC!! And you cannot imagine how much I enjoy it; I reckon some people might be scared, but I’m definitively not!

There is an intensive prayer-life and we work a lot in the fields. We have three pigs, at least up to now… and four sheep, two of them are pregnant and I cannot wait to see the newborn lambs. I also make fresh yougurt every morning for the whole community.

Yesterday I spent the whole day picking olives… it’s a very heavy work, but we had so much fun. We work together with some lay people and there’s a very lively community close to the monastery.

Here we are picking the olives from the trees, and we obviously need to lay lot of nets under the tress to collect the olives which we let fall on the ground





Then we bring them to the women who do the less heavy work, which means, beside cooking lunch for everyone, they use a nice machine which separate the olives from the leaves



We have already made 190 litres of pure olive oil, and we have a lot more to do; last year they made 1970 litres…

And obviously we are eating PASTA!!!


Some more pics to see where we are:







Bye bye everyone, hope to write soon with some more good news.
Shalom
br.Federico