It is Sunday again. The sun is shining again, giving us all its support
to continue. It is the third day of our „Living together“. This week we
started already on Saturday when one volunteer came for several hours and
worked on cleaning the wild bushes of the forest pathways and made it ready for
the next day activities.
On
Sunday morning after all had gathered we continue to take away the wild bushes
in the forest that before made it impassable and unapproachable. The branches
and bushes, cut on the previous day, are piling up as a “green mountain” at the
place specially chosen for this purpose.
The space for the planned children corner, The Forest Children Kingdom,
is getting open. The whole area now starts “breathing” and people are already
taking the courage to walk on the path coming down from the mountain.
In the Forest Children´s Kingdom the
base construction of the sand pool was built up and as soon as the children saw
it’s wooden outlines they enthusiastically started helping to transfer the sand
inside it, of course, using their play pots. The youngest ones were even using
the cardboard tea cups. The children’s participation is one of the most
touching things in implementing the project !
During the day we also started the
setup of the construction for the composters, read more about this in the blog Food for The Earth.
In the future repose area we started
planting shrubs that will make the outlines for the future flower islets. They
in turn will provide the direction for the “Flower river”, that will be planted
next Sunday (October 27th). We will be looking forward to the start
of “running – blooming”, next Spring when the “Flower river” will be in full
bloom.
A little bit further up we really put
our heart – about twenty daisy plants found their place in the soil in the shape of a heart. The
next day, when
we have finished our work, a man who is
walking his dog, by chance passes by and exclaims – “Here somebody did
something good!” He turns out to be Spanish and doesn’t speak yet very well
Bulgarian, but he expresses a spontaneous joy and says that he would join the
activities next week!
Our Sunday activity for this week ends up around 17.00 – every week we
unintentionally prolong the time at the site with at least one hour. At the end
we probably would not like to leave it at all.
The coming Sunday (October
27th) we are again inviting everybody who would like to live better
together to join our neighborhood activities in Knyazhevska forest.
