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of potato dumplings and fat eyes

underemployment and boredom impressed since Rucksackklau my time as a volunteer in Weltwärts AIDER. I had and have in the office just to do nothing. Everyday life would look like this: I come to the office at 8:30 am and as long as I my private affairs (e-mail, football results, etc.) have relatively good mood. If I have done this, however, my mood curve drops off rapidly until the lunch break. I'm usually quite annoyed to have lunch and then go home to me during a nap in my hammock a bit to respond from. Back in the office I go by the morning procedure a second time and wait about 4 clock anxiously for the evening ceremony. That this situation is a not particularly satisfying, can think of any. So I'm in the recently fallen deeper and deeper into a hole. I could rouse myself less and less motivation to do something and my curve went into negative territory. The stolen backpack further magnified, of course.

I know myself that I am personally responsible for the success or failure of my year at AIDER. The initial misconception that anyone here is waiting with prepared tasks for me, I have long been identified as such and I am aware that welwärts not guaranteed a great year to be. But I found it very recently been very hard for me to bring me out of my lethargy and to look for a job. The preparation for the seminar preached "proactive" is, you find yourself in a situation like me right now, really a heavy task.

Last Monday, so the situation reached its peak-or nadir. One of the problems at work or a dispute with our landlord came. We now have a 2-page catalog of rules and if we do not observe this thrown out. But for that we are personally responsible, because we behave partially incorrect. So I ran at 10 clock in the office to the gym and gave up my aggression. Afternoon in the office in search of a job for next year, all my prejudices that I have in the have developed recently against AIDER confirmed, so I got really mad. Manuel tried to appease me, but helped at first. He told me something of potato dumplings and fat eyes. I was a potato dumpling that lies at the bottom of the pot and does not come up. To improve my situation, I would have a fat eye that floats on top of the soup, be. Funny story I thought, but somehow true. I am really fallen into a deep hole and must try now to get there somehow turn out.

I went home and thought. I really had to change something because it could not go on.

The next day I went with some motivation fueled the office. I made a to-do list and doing a lot of things, though largely private, which I had pushed in recent days and weeks ahead of me. I also tried to create me a plan for the first quarter of 2010. I spoke with an employee, Alejandro, who has a new project, dedicated to the production of natural latex, launched. I can, he said, from January to work at it, go with him into the forest and drive Comunidades. This all sounds quite interesting and my motivation slowly began to get back into positive ranges. Evening, but then a setback. I was with a colleague, my Planning and deny they said that they would prefer it if I would participate in one project, Sustainable Forest Management in three (new) Comunidades. I wondered why she had not told me sooner. For weeks, I vegetate in front of me in the office, has not organize a task for me, and now I take the helm, myself, and then someone comes in and tells me he is thinking for me otherwise. Again, I was annoyed by AIDER. Fortunately I had arranged for the evening a Skype date with Merle. It is weltwärts in Ecuador and it was lovely once again to speak to over 4 months with her and our experiences exchange.

is now already the last day before the Christmas holidays. I talked yesterday with my boss, Pio, and he told me that I can decide for myself, in which employees of the two projects I want to. This took me back a step to the fore. I'm going with a decision to come back from vacation, then from January to a hopefully more interesting and more fulfilling work have. But I also know that my happiness is mine. I have to run after the people, for the last few months have shown that this is not different from AIDER is around. I hope that I, for from the potato dumpling Fat eye, would that I can break out of my hole and my unmotivated nature to my Weltwärts year, to make it a success.

But now I will for a few days not only think about the work. Soon it is common here in the office Christmas meal followed by exchanging gifts. In the collective drinking beer but I will not be there, because I've unfortunately caught an ear infection. I will not complain, because the only thing that can help me at the moment is positive in looking to the future. And this looks rosy for the next two weeks. It goes by bus to Tarapoto. Thereafter Moyobamba to Chachapoyas to the ruins of Kuelap and the Catarata Gocta, the third highest waterfall on earth, and back to Moyobamba to communicate with other volunteers to celebrate including my roommates from Pucallpa and Betty from Villa Rica, Christmas. Then we go to Mancora, the busiest resort of Peru to celebrate New Year with the T-shirt and at 30 degrees at sea. If I'm lucky, my boss gives us until 10.01. free. In this case, I would still go to Quito to attend Merle.

This is probably my last entry in 2010 will be. I have had great experiences so far in Peru, have much see and learn and was allowed, thanks AIDER introduced to new cultures. There were setbacks, the stolen backpack, and the last time was described, not always easy. But I prefer quite a positive awareness of the first third of my Weltwärts year. Bad experiences are easy to do and my work situation shows me how I can I do in future, even in Germany, different. I look good cheer in the new year 2011.

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The story of a stolen backpack

Now it happened to me. I was robbed. The whole thing is happening on the Flusscolectivo (boat) to Curiaca, the Comunidad where I wanted to spend the next 2 weeks. I know that the thief has punished my own stupidity. The backpack did not have to be stolen, if I have the advice that was given to me by colleagues and you are otherwise I ran in my life many times over the path would have followed. One should not place them in a country like Peru in just a pocket all his valuables and then this one may be even less supervision. If this happens then even at night, then a theft, the logical consequence. How could I still committing both errors, I do not know myself, but I know I've done it and I know that I device my camera, my GPS, my wallet with 200 soles (about 60 €) and my Peruvian identification document, my phone, my MP3 player, my sunglasses, my pocket knife, my 3 books, rain poncho and a little small stuff will never see again. Since I did not leave before I bother to take out baggage insurance, I'll get on this path no redress.

how everything has gone by rather than being, I now report in detail. On Wednesday afternoon I drove with my luggage, backpack just mentioned, a larger backpack with clothes, tent and sleeping mat, a bag with food for 2 weeks and a 20 liter water containers to the port and boarded the boat "Willian Alfredo" (The n is not a typo. In Peru, names are often written down by ear. So here is sometimes Maycol Michael, Brian Brayan, etc). At about 3:30 I lay in my hammock and waited for my colleagues Hillario, who arrived even a few minutes later. I put my backpack on a bench at the foot end of my hammock. Since I wanted to send a few sms and buy me something to eat, I took out my phone and my wallet from the backpack. A short time later I both tucked back in the bag and saw it as a slim, has large, about 22 years of Peruvians observed with a blue T-shirt and curly hair myself. Actually, this would have been ringing the alarm bells must but I had the backpack in place are just described. My colleague sat down below next to my backpack. The boat pulled away and slowly it began to get dark. The Peruvians with the blue shirt was lying with his head next to my backpack. I was dozing in my hammock, looking every now and then over to my backpack, whether he was still there. Night fell and I fell asleep, woke up again, and often had always seen my backpack in place. About 1 clock I got half asleep with, as my colleague was told to switch sides because the boat had a little list. He took his luggage and sat at my bedside. My backpack he had on my foot of stand alone so that it now stood. I did not react to the situation. A little later I went back to the toilet and saw my backpack in place. This should be the last chance to "save" it for when I woke up at about 4:30 clock had my backpack and the Peruvians with the blue T-shirt away. We were at this time at the pier of "Iparia. After conversations with various passengers and crew of the boat, we were able to determine fairly sure that the guy with my backpack, either in Galilee or Ahuaypa, about 2 hours, down the river got out. How should I respond

now? I did not have some money and my colleague did not properly deal with the situation. I would probably to get out in the darkness in which unknown to me, "Iparia" and to take the next boat down the river, but I decided that, until Curiaca to go to in order to take further steps. By 1 clock noon on Thursday we arrived at last. I called the AIDER office and was instructed to drive away in the same boat back and look in Galilee and Ahuaypa in my backpack.

I was previously at that time and even in the hours clear that the company had little meaning. I had "given away" my pack lightly and that I would never see him again, was the only just punishment. The investigation brought in the two Comunidades as expected nothing. My colleague Hollario had to accompany me and extend his boat must travel a further 24 hours. The arms.

I arrived on Friday afternoon after 48 hours on the river again in Pucallpa. My backpack with almost everything valuable I own here in Peru, is gone and I will never see him again.

I'm mainly because of the camera very sad. Although it sounds silly, but it is in recent years become in my travels a part of me. The photography was for me always a Mitgrund for travel. I am now facing the question of whether I still here in Peru is expected to grow a new camera. At the moment I can not decide. This is supported by that I mean an unfinished work, could vortsetzen a detailed photographic documentation of my weltwärts year. Speaking against, that I had to count also with the fact that I have a second camera was stolen. Perhaps it may even be a chance for me to explore this country with a new look. After all I have in recent years seen many situations, landscapes and images only through the lens of my Canon and thus may have missed the reality.

Everything else can be happy, relatively easily, though financially costly to address. A new phone I'll buy this week and I already have the obligatory display behind me, so I by the German Embassy get issued a new "Green Card".

I hope that I will watch not by this event in future better to my (value) terms. Since I was so far never really stolen anything, it was probably good that I was being shaken up in a relatively harmless way. Peru is a beautiful country, I have had an unforgettable experience and I will certainly have in the future, but we must not forget that there is a downside. This consists of high crime, corruption and poverty. This I have lately seems to be the hidden one time or another too often careless and am going through life here. I hope I last week for my future has learned.

Benign Dangerous Diseases

away message

Today it's finally back to a Comunidad. Once in the planning AIDER again everything went haywire, I was twice put off until tomorrow, and frankly was quite annoyed, it's now finally after Curiaca. There I will either, which is not yet precise, participate in a tree census in the forestry area, or alternatively look for me any problem there. Accordingly, I can not say exactly when I'll be back just in Pucallpa. But if the latest 17.12. is adopted by a small Christmas party in 2010 I will be here again. I file now already planning the next trip. Until then, I send you warm greetings to the wet snowy Germany!