I. Welcome to our volunteer trips around Latin America

Our first week as volunteers

We've been volunteering now for a week, at a small cottage 12km away from the closest village called Chascomús.
Its owner, Señor Logarzo, lives here alone, surrounded by happy cows and nosy sheep. There's not even a single moment of quietude:  there's birds singing in the sky, frogs croaking in the water and insects chirping on the ground.
It's amazing how much we've learned so far. Señor Logarzo has been instructing us about bioconstruction, microbiotic diet and healthy lifestyle. And immediately we put everything into practice.
Everyday we wake up to some gentile yoga exercises, to then eat our breakfast: rice cream (either with honey or miso) and/or some homemade bread. But now and then Joana can't resist to having her usual smoothy with nuts and some superfood powders.
Everything we eat is organic, preferably grown locally and wholegrain (in case of cereals). And with this precise qualities, we baked some unbelievably delicious bread and muffins! Impossible to describe the crispness of the bread and the natural sweet taste of the carrot muffins, both slowly baked in a firewood stove.
We dedicate few days a week to the continuous building of a small bioconstruction house. It starts with the preparation of the ground, then the skeleton structure made of wood (which includes the ceiling) and then the filling of the skeleton (to make the strawbale walls). And here we are, working hard to mix sand and soil into bags that will be lifted by hand to the second floor of the house.
Besides this, we are also trying to clear up and organize the space here at the cottage. The garden is massive (12 hectares) and the previous owners left it a wee bit dirty and let the plants grow far too much wild.
The best is that feeling, at the end of one day that felt like two, after the warm shower and the deserved nourishing food,  to go to bed knowing that you're helping one achieve his dreams. You're not alone, Señor Logarzo.
To get to know us better, have a look at our website if you wish:
The Helping Tugas
Thanks for reading!