Wednesday is after a long time a little bit calm day. House has been cleaned since the weekend and everything starts to be slowly prepared for the next working Saturday and Sunday. We again expect 50 or 60 people coming from everywhere doing all kinds of jobs: the architects, the forest workers, the builders, the cleaners etc. People from building companies come everyday with different kinds of samples of the stones, which we will use for the reconstruction of the road. The existing road would not be able to handle the heavy trucks bringing the tents for the summer course. That’s why yesterday Philip explained the details of the road project to everybody.

Today has also started the painting in the Gompa. Everything in the room is covered and ready to be paint in white colour. The big statue of Buddha is moved for a while to the small, but cosy room on the ground floor, where a temporary meditation room is established. We will try to uncover and clean the Gompa for the evening mediation on Thursday, because usually a lot of people come to meditate on that day.

Nice young man Gerrit came few days ago with a task to measure every room and space in both of our houses. He works quite hard on it, because the Villa and the second house have so many rooms, even a lot them were surprisingly undiscovered. As Gerrit says, you cannot image how many times the number 108 is appearing during the measurement. It looks like the house is always surprising us with something we already know.

Today is also a day when Karolina and Danas left the EC. They had to return to Lithuania for a while. Danas as a travel teacher has a tour in Russia for the next weeks. He will come back in the end of February. Karolina will come back from time to time, because she has to finish her studies. For sure we will miss her blog writing skills, beautiful face and excellent English. Before Danas left, he had given to Roman the transmission of Nicolas old Chevy car. In fact, the car is quite legendary, well-known in Polish Kuchary and now in the EC. Twice a week we encourage ourselves to sit in old seats, trying to find a seatbelt and the right direction to the local stores to buy the food for everybody. And we can tell you, it is an experience. You have to get used to the big size, unpredictable movements of the driver seat and strange noises of the engine. But anyway, we always manage to buy good, healthy, cheap supplies for the house.

Yours,
EC team

By klara