CHAPTER II: “Next Station: Orahovica”

For "Super Duge Team" was not enough only with Zagreb adventures facing the new culture and habits of Croatian people, the “Super Duge Team” has to travel to deep Croatia:


                                    ORAHOVICA

It was 6.30 a.m. when we had to pick the first tram in the morning and after using our croatian language skills, it took us at least 3 or 4 “Oprosti, Train za Orahovica?” and also more than 10 “Hvala’s” – the word we pronounce the best, so the one we use the most!

A 3’5h train took us to this beautiful, cannibalism and cold land where everything it’s made out of really good pork meat, even the vegetables sometimes!

We arrived there feeling scared about what kind of volunteering monsters we were going find there while we prepared our bests smiles for them not to eat us the first day, but then…the moment we went down for our first meeting we realize who this Little monsters were: crazy people (in a perfect way of being crazy) who were going to teach us a lot of things like: how to see life in a different way in the best macedonian style, signing with the rithym of the ukulele – ukelele for galician people – with the italian team and having a lot of fun with the….. let’s call it “The Half-croatian Team” who had the super power of not only understanding but knowing how to, perfectly say more than just “Hvala”… The “Puppet Team” were, like Tania would say… “Crazy like spiders”.

Thanks to Domagoj and his “best” energizers, we learn each other name’s so we were feeling comfortable being a small family when suddently…. We discover that the rest of the “Family” was lost in the middle of nowhere, somewhere between Istria and Orahovica…so we were force to do our own activity for getting to know each other…: In the swimming pool!!

We also learnt how to work together as a Team, and this is which personally (Else) I think is the best example of perfect team work: (click the picture and enjoy!)

So between “medica” and “tomislav” we become a big and united “Happy Family”, as you can see here:

Photo by: VLADIMIR GRGURIĆ for the journal Glas Slavonije