Letter from a volunteer

The purpose of coming to Sweden was to get experience of being independent and more experience in a kitchen.

The flight over to Sweden was good until the landing there was a quick burst of heavy rain so the pilots couldn’t see the run way, so they had to quickly fly back up and turn and try again
 
The first day carina showed me around her work at first then we headed to Båstad it’s a really nice place loved it, I met the owner Christopher and the personal trainer Mauro who both were extremely kind and nice

Thee wasn’t a lot of work to be done in the hotel as it was the summer and its really quiet so instead of being in the kitchen I was helping to clean the kitchen and the rooms and stuff but I didn’t mind it kept me busy, I trained with Mauro in the mornings and sometimes at Carina’s house but Mauro was really good he kept you trying hard he was MMA fighter which means Mixed Martial Arts he was really good he had 17 fights and won 15 lost 2, I was aloud to take any DVDs I liked to watch at night and carina had given me a laptop so at night I could just sit relax and watch a film which was really good, I was eating at carina’s at dinner time which was great got to meet her family who were very nice to easy to get on with.

We went to the beach once or twice and it was really good nice and warm water was a bit cold though, I met some Swedish people to when I was out having a cigarette and they just started talking to me they were so nice and now I keep in contact with them which is really good haven’t meet anybody like that before couldn’t believe it.

I worked in the kitchen on the Saturday it was amazing it had been a while since I was in a proper kitchen but it didn’t take me long to get back into my stride, I was helping prepare meet for the grill making different types of salad for example potato salad green salad red salad etc, making sauces and stuff it was great Christopher didn’t even have to tell me what to do I just knew which made it better I really enjoyed it I started at 12pm  had a break at 4 then back to work started on the grill at 7 feeding about 50 MMA fighters who were there for a convention it was great they were all really big but really nice people finished at 11pm long shift but really enjoyed it I didn’t want to finish!. There wasn’t enough work at the hotel Christopher had to close the kitchen earlier than he expected.

 I couldn’t stay in Båstad there wouldn’t be anything for me to do so I came to Gothenburg and stayed with Carina I was helping her with garden work etc it doesn’t bother me its good it keeps me busy, we went to the beach to and was much nicer spring boards to jump off and the water was nice and warm really nice. The food is a lot better to a lot healthier so when I get home my diet will be changing to what I am eating here its a lot better.

On Wednesday the 3rd of august I and Carina went out on the boat with the president of L.E.S.A association and his son and daughter. We went to a small island and had some food they sat and bathed in the sun as I went and explored the island it was really nice it was a really hot day with a little wind to keep you cool it was beautiful. We went for a swim and jamp of some rocks into the water which was great, then we went water skiing which was really good to watch I couldn’t do it was really difficult but then we had the chube tied to the back of the boat that was amazing I didn’t come of I stayed on which made it even better we were going really fast!.

And on the 4th we had to go and buy the food for the small camp we have to get meat and stuff for the barbeque and Monday nights dinner that I am cooking for which is really good.

The small camp together with young people from Sweden and Matt Ellison from UK was started on Saturday 6th of August there I was responsible for the food.

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