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New friends from Italia. Fabio and Margherita

Fabio and Margherita

Fabio and Margherita are our new friends from Italia. They helped us with our daily routine; doing gardening, cooking, and cleaning the house. Oh, yeah ...! We harvested vegetables too. We did these activities in one day and become our daily schedule. They followed our life routine, woke up at six am morning and started the day without breakfast. We started having food at nine o’clock am with simple food and dinner at six-thirty pm. So, we only eat twice a day. Fabio and Margherita all-out helped us, with no hesitation, with happiness and joy, and although this was the first time we met them, the atmosphere was very mild and friendly between us, what a nice moment!!.

Fabio & Margherita joining in harvesting vegetables
Fabio concentration in harvesting the mustard greens 

Fabio & Margherita
Finished harvesting the vegetables

We started the day in the garden, cleaned the grasses, tidied up the poly bags, and prepared a place, for the next to grow mustard greens. At nine am we finished working in the garden, had a break for a while and started to make our meals. We ate together and did chit chat, exchanged the culture and talked psychology matters. And the fact, Margherita and Santosa were the fellows of meditation practitioner, so much knowledge to share with. And Fabio was a smart guy and had the same interest for kung fu and playing Nunchaku, such as me. Lunch and dinner were a good moment for knowing each other like sharing stories and experiences. So from there, my dad came up with an idea to invite them to have a walk around villages, and they made the arrangements to have time to walk for the next day, meanwhile, I stayed at home taking a break and preparing ingredients for dinner, and we agreed with that plan. We took a break after had meals, and then, we had a nap for one and half hour. We started work again at one pm; planting vegetables and watering the crops. After it, we continued to harvest vegetables; mustard green. Fabio and Margherita harvested and weighed into one kilo per bunch. After finished, my dad sold the vegetables to the market at once.

Fabio & Margherita
weighed the vegetables into one kilo per bunch.


We finished our works, between three and four pm, and after cleaned ourselves, we had free time, me and my dad watching television, meanwhile, Fabio and Margherita went to a youth cafe. Actually, the cafe has no name, but I call it like that because that is a place for local people to hang out and most are youths. And we already agree to meet again at six pm to have dinner together.

Margherita & Santosa
in one of the villages

Fabio was giving motivation to the students

The next day, Santosa, Fabio, and Margherita woke up early morning, made preparation to have a walk around the village, and I made a lunch box for them. They started to go at nine am and arrived at home at three pm with sweating and tired but stayed a smile on their face. Fabio and Margherita took their rest and cleaned themselves, and my dad sat on his chair; drank a cup of coffee and recounted to me their whole tripped to the village. They visited four different villages and had a chance of stopping by at my aunty house, and she has presented them with a local coffee made by herself, chilled out and had a rest for a moment and then they continued to walk. When they have passed the last village and were heading to go home, they passed the primary school. Fabio wanted to say hello to the students and went into that school. After my dad has had permission from the teacher, they allowed going into a classroom. In the beginning, the students confused and asked my dad, what for and what the tourist did here? And then my dad explained to them. The students made the same reaction in the Indonesian language, “oooooohhh ngono taah...!!” Then the lovely moment happened. Fabio gave motivation to the students for how important to learn English and different languages are. By learning different languages, we can visit the world. After the students heard and paid attention to Fabio speaking, and Santosa has translated it, the students started to give big applause and had passion with a big smile on their faces. When I heard that story from my dad, I immediately went to Fabio’s room and said to him, a good job sir, very nice. For me, that was a beautiful moment. Thanks to Fabio and thanks to Margherita too which that have recorded it through a video.

On the last day, one day before they moved to the next spot and started their journey, Fabio and Margherita offered to cook dinner and I answered, yes please, I wanted to try Italian cuisine. Fabio and Margherita went to the market by themselves to find ingredients, and by the way, just a few in the local market, able to speak English, but they could manage it and brought many of ingredients back home. Fabio and Margherita started cooking at six pm, they cleaned, washed and cut every ingredient such as carrots, tomatoes, mushrooms, and onions. They planned to cook spaghetti and chicken livers, and before it, I had cooked yellow rice; the ingredients are, turmeric, coconut milk, ginger as big as the tip of the thumb, and one-kilogram rice then cooked together. Simple and delicious. Come back in the kitchen, they prepared and cut onions and vegetables to make a sauce of spaghetti. I looked and paid attention to how they cooked it, but I thought if only by watching them, I could not remember every step of cooking. So, I had an idea to record it, what the recipes and techniques are. So in early, I become a viewer and student, and the next, I turned out to become a cameraman. We finished to make dinner at eight and we already starve. A soon as the dinner readied, Margherita brought it to the table and we first eating the spaghetti as the main course and followed with the second dishes was yellow rice and mushroom chicken liver sauteed ones. We enjoyed the dinner together but my dad can’t stand to add chili sauce on his plate. After our stomach fulled, I brought the desserts, sweet potatoes, bananas, and rice cake. We closed the night with finished our meals, enjoyed the dessert with chit chat. After dinner, Fabio and Margherita had a walk in the village enjoying the night mood. After went home, they took sleep early because the next day at five am they had to chase the train to go to another city.


So, I thought that was all of my experience with Fabio and Margherita. I could story about our new friends based on what I did and felt; warmest event together with them. Thanks for them have given us such a wonderful memory and friendship. Grazie mille ...!!

Author,

Kusuma Atsarak Santosa.


I thought they were lost in my village at Wonosari and met with me and my son with their plan for traveling.

Category: Traveling




Watch their video here:
https://gprosfarmer.blogspot.com/p/travelers-mementos.html
Video number 5
I thought, they were lost when they made a plan to come to Indonesia and made a decision to come to my village. I felt, they were disappointed when come and stay in my guest house. They were like confused. What could I do here? I was confused, too, what I would show to them here is. Finally, I made a decision that I will show, how, me and my son lives here. How do our genuine lives here? Yes, we found the activities finally.

With brought a hesitate feeling, I explained one by one how our village is in before. In the past, our village was a tourism village destination. A lot of Chinese local tourists and local citizen came to my village just for praying in the temple or just traveled and looked around because it was very crowded at that time. And, now become a kampung, just ordinary kampung. But, sometime become a tourism village again, it depend to the big days like, new year or Eid day "Muslim big day."

I thought hard, how making them happy when they were staying in my guest house. I suggested to my son that you had to cook some of Indonesian cuisine and invite them, he or she, to join when you are cooking. Well, finally, my son decided to cook Indonesian curry and lumpia for five day's dishes. I said to them that we usually cook a lot at once to live for five days or one week. And for another day, my son would cook Chicken claws, cooked with sweet soy sauce. But unfortunately, they rushed to leave, went to another place before my son cooked it. They stayed only four days of their planned that was 12 days.

In four days, they filled the days with cooking, one of them name is Ingrid gave a donation to me by buying a cement to plastering the floor on upstairs and gave a gift the seed of flowers. And the last, we went for a walk and sightseeing some near village of my property. My son and I have made a video memory about them as memento for us. See you again, guys.

Love and compassion,
Santosa Laksana and Kusuma A. S







Finally the fireplace to cook hot water for bathing can be used again.







On the first day, when the roofs of the bathrooms collapsed, I had time thinking that, oh my goddess, how can I serve my guest if the fireplace to boil hot water is broken? I cannot repairing that! I do not able and do not have an experience to build a building using cement. I almost gave up.

Okay, because I had to repair the roof first, I did not think again how to repair the fireplace, I thought I would think later after I have finished repairing the roof. For three days I tried and struggled to build again the roof as I could and yeah,, I did it..! The Hut and roof have stood firmly on the ground at above the fireplace that was broken. Hoo hoo..., I thought again, I will have a new challenge tomorrow, build again the fireplace which I don't know how.

Relax.., relax.., I said to myself, I definitely can if I do it slowly and one by one. I took my rest, bathed, and did small celebrate when dinner with my son to celebrate our success, that is building a hut and its roofs.

Yes.., the fourth day has come, it's the time for me and my son to repair the fireplace to cook the hot water for bathing. Okay.., I didn't think again, I just did it naturally. Because my son had to clean the bathrooms first, I worked to rebuild the fireplace alone, without a help from my son. Ha ha ha.., and LOL a lot, in the middle of my work, my son warned me that my work was wronged. Yes, he right, after I thought twice and so on, I aware that it would be collapsed again if I continue my work. My son stop cleaning the bathrooms and made a decision to help me, finally. Yeah.., My son helped me rebuild the fireplace till the end.

We repeated again, what I worked in advance and did it one by one like what said by my son was. Great, finally I could think clearly how to continue the work in the right manner although might not be perfect. I struggled to cement it carefully. Slowly by slowly I did it and with a small smile of course. And yeah.., We did it and succeed rebuilt the fireplace to cook the hot water for bathing. Thank you God, thank you so much.

Love and affection,
Santosa Laksana.







Cleaning the bathrooms area and make sure to keep the spring water cleanest.





Hot water traditional

Bathrooms area

Spring water

I and my son very busied today. Finishing our work yesterday cleaning the bathrooms area that just collapsed. Our loyal and bona fide guests from Jakarta will be coming today, so we had to hurry up to finish our work can be finished today. We make sure that the floor-yard outside of the bathrooms be clean.

We have 9 bathrooms outdoor to serve the guests whose stay one night or long stay at our guest house. We take the water directly from a spring of ours that was created by my father in the past in 1978. It was me at 4 years old.

We very excited for working until finish. Cleaning the floor and bathroom wall and bathroom tub. So amazing! Because, although our guest house is a simple guest house, not modern, the old guest house, but, the environment is very beautiful for me. The bathrooms area are already clean and the water in the bathtub so very clean, like no the water. I and my son are very satisfy with our work today and we say thanks so much to our God, the Universe, Holy spirit, and Deities. They always protect us and guide us. Have a good day.

Love and affection,
Santosa Laksana







Zita trip sightseeing around the villages.

This is the second experienced, I hosted the guests from Europe. The first is from London and now is from Hungary, she is Zita Zeber. Very smart and an modest, gracious, courteous, kind, and pleasant woman that has removed my worried if I would disappoint her because my guest house is very simple and haven't fully ready yet to serve the guest. But she said don't worry, everything is okay and I like your place. That's made me happy and my worried become disappeared.

And the next day, she asked me to guided her sightseeing around the villages, and I very pleasured to did that. I guided her to waterfall, the place is very nice to relax. We took some pictures there, relax, and took a time for a moment to meditation on the top of stone. I looked she is very passionate to finish her meditation and I am done first.

The next, we went to small water spring, the water is very clean and can be drunk directly, the taste is very fresh. I would frankly for this, the place is not too beautiful, just water spring in the open place at the corner of the big stone, but we enjoyed the journey. Breathing in and breathing out.

The lunch time was come, we decided to had our lunch on Keraton. The ancient place for ancient Javanese that now already blended with 5 religion which has been stood there. Konfucius, muslim, hindu, and Catholic or Christian, and the last the prime that are animism and dynamism of javanese culture, it is called of Kejawen cultures.

The last of my story is, we went home with laugh and smile enjoyed our journey through another road across the woods. I hope the next time I will guide you to sightsee the village around my property. Still many. See you.

Coban Baung waterfall

Time to lunch

keraton

Pine trees

Zita in woods

Go home


Please visit my property in a village of Wonosari JL. Sumber manggis RT07/RW04, Gunung Kawi, East Java, Indonesia. GProS Farmer on google maps.






Love universe.
Santosa Laksana

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