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Happy Days in Hagedorn
Ahhhhhhhh....Life is Good. I've had a lot of fun exlporing Europe the last 4 months but sometimes it's nice to just stay in one place for awhile, especially with a great friend like Heike. 
I feel so at home here it doesn't really feel like I'm in a foreign country. I've had a really great week and a half staying with Heike in her big farmhouse in Hagedorn and am so grateful for the time off from thinking about all the details involved with constantly moving from place to place. the first weekend I was here Heike was away at a paddling course all weekend so I actually had her place all to myself. Before she left she let me take her new used car to Steinheim for a few groceries and thankfully this time it did not break down on me! That weekend I went for a hike in the Teutoburger Wald with some of the other people living here that I met last time around and found a very peculiar looking stone in the path that had a bit of gold colouring in it. Nobody really knew what it was, coal slag, gold or maybe even a meteorite. It would be so great if it was some kind of precious stone that was worth something, I could pay off my debt for this trip with it! We found out later what it was but you'll have to read further to find out what! Since then I've done a few long bike rides around the Hagedorn area. 
On Monday night I took the bike out on my own and ended up getting a little lost and took the wrong road back to Hagedorn and ended up biking up the steep hill to a town called Schwalenberg. It really wasn't such a bad thing because I had been wanting to go up there and see the old preserved painted German homes from the Middle Ages they have there anyway, I just didn't realize I would end up there so soon! I had been there in 1998 when I visited Heike last and just wanted to see them again. They're really quite nice, the old buildings have scenes, people, and places painted all over them in an artful way. really pretty. I also caught a great sunset view from the top of the hill in Schwalenberg. Heike and I also took the bikes out on Thursday and went strawberry picking and then proceeded to bike another 20 km's to the Schieder See and back. Needless to say the strawberries weren't in the greatest shape after getting bumped around on my handlebars but they still tasted soooo good! Anyway, for the last 14 years or so Heike has been running her own 'Indianishes Essen' (South American food) 
stand at music festivals and other events and she was booked to be at a small Yoga\Precious Stone event on the weekend so I went along to help her with her food stand. It was a really cool experience. It's a lot of work to prepare for these events and the payback isn't always great but what a way to make a living! I think I got a very good impression of her life as a food stand entrepreneur because the event was so small and therefore wasn't as hugely stressful as some of the other huge music festivals Heike has told me she's been to. We pretty well just set up shop in a little wooden shack on the edge of the property where the event was taking place and just had a blast serving up some really 'lecker' (yummy!) food. Her friend Klaus came along to help as well and the three of just enjoyed our time there together. We were serving juice called Lila Chicha which is made out of type of black corn that grows in Peru and it was really funny to see all these kids running around later in the day with Lila Chicha juice mustaches! The best part for me was this clear cool river that was flowing just beside the festival property. It has been so hot here the last couple of days so it was even more hot in the stand what with all the cookers and a deep frying oven on, so it was nice to go wading around in there a few times a day just to cool off. 
I also brought the weird stone I found to the festival as there was a mineralogist there who could examine it. From the photo you can't really see the gold coloured streak in the stone very well but the expert guy scraped a bit off the stone, put it under his microscope and deduced that it was merely pyrite, aka fool's gold. No golden nugget to pay this trip off for me! Oh well, I guess I have to work for my money like everyone else! At the end of the day yesterday we packed up the stand and drove back to Hagedorn in the rain that had been threatening to fall all weekend! So great. So now I'm here in Hagedorn until Wednesday which is when I'm heading to Örlenbach to visit a few realtives that I have not yet visited and then I'll be meeting Christine in München on Saturday which is when we take off for Croatia! Can't Wait! 
I feel so at home here it doesn't really feel like I'm in a foreign country. I've had a really great week and a half staying with Heike in her big farmhouse in Hagedorn and am so grateful for the time off from thinking about all the details involved with constantly moving from place to place. the first weekend I was here Heike was away at a paddling course all weekend so I actually had her place all to myself. Before she left she let me take her new used car to Steinheim for a few groceries and thankfully this time it did not break down on me! That weekend I went for a hike in the Teutoburger Wald with some of the other people living here that I met last time around and found a very peculiar looking stone in the path that had a bit of gold colouring in it. Nobody really knew what it was, coal slag, gold or maybe even a meteorite. It would be so great if it was some kind of precious stone that was worth something, I could pay off my debt for this trip with it! We found out later what it was but you'll have to read further to find out what! Since then I've done a few long bike rides around the Hagedorn area. 
On Monday night I took the bike out on my own and ended up getting a little lost and took the wrong road back to Hagedorn and ended up biking up the steep hill to a town called Schwalenberg. It really wasn't such a bad thing because I had been wanting to go up there and see the old preserved painted German homes from the Middle Ages they have there anyway, I just didn't realize I would end up there so soon! I had been there in 1998 when I visited Heike last and just wanted to see them again. They're really quite nice, the old buildings have scenes, people, and places painted all over them in an artful way. really pretty. I also caught a great sunset view from the top of the hill in Schwalenberg. Heike and I also took the bikes out on Thursday and went strawberry picking and then proceeded to bike another 20 km's to the Schieder See and back. Needless to say the strawberries weren't in the greatest shape after getting bumped around on my handlebars but they still tasted soooo good! Anyway, for the last 14 years or so Heike has been running her own 'Indianishes Essen' (South American food) 
stand at music festivals and other events and she was booked to be at a small Yoga\Precious Stone event on the weekend so I went along to help her with her food stand. It was a really cool experience. It's a lot of work to prepare for these events and the payback isn't always great but what a way to make a living! I think I got a very good impression of her life as a food stand entrepreneur because the event was so small and therefore wasn't as hugely stressful as some of the other huge music festivals Heike has told me she's been to. We pretty well just set up shop in a little wooden shack on the edge of the property where the event was taking place and just had a blast serving up some really 'lecker' (yummy!) food. Her friend Klaus came along to help as well and the three of just enjoyed our time there together. We were serving juice called Lila Chicha which is made out of type of black corn that grows in Peru and it was really funny to see all these kids running around later in the day with Lila Chicha juice mustaches! The best part for me was this clear cool river that was flowing just beside the festival property. It has been so hot here the last couple of days so it was even more hot in the stand what with all the cookers and a deep frying oven on, so it was nice to go wading around in there a few times a day just to cool off. 
I also brought the weird stone I found to the festival as there was a mineralogist there who could examine it. From the photo you can't really see the gold coloured streak in the stone very well but the expert guy scraped a bit off the stone, put it under his microscope and deduced that it was merely pyrite, aka fool's gold. No golden nugget to pay this trip off for me! Oh well, I guess I have to work for my money like everyone else! At the end of the day yesterday we packed up the stand and drove back to Hagedorn in the rain that had been threatening to fall all weekend! So great. So now I'm here in Hagedorn until Wednesday which is when I'm heading to Örlenbach to visit a few realtives that I have not yet visited and then I'll be meeting Christine in München on Saturday which is when we take off for Croatia! Can't Wait! 
1 comment:
Remember that children's story about the fools gold? Goofy finds a rock that looks like gold and finds out its not real...good ol times with goofy. So I'm guessing the reality of going home is probably starting to set in. I hear from mom that we are not going to Montreal anymore? Is that true? So I can go to folk fest...sounds ok to me. but we need to go to Montreal some other time then. Have fun in croatia. Say hi to goob. -caroline
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