How-to-do... CHEESE

Today I will tell you how we survive without the delicious german cheese! The solution is quite easy: make your own cheese! The lithuanian cheese is... well, it just does not exist, there are only import-products (the few exceptions are for the trash). So far so good, let's start!

You need:

• fresh milk
• a big pot to boil it
• a small box or something else
• any kind of filter (e.g. a piece of linnen)
• some spices

Before you can even start, you have to wait... for the fresh milk getting a "little bit bad". If you don't keep it in the fridge, it will be ready after the first two days! Now just heat the milk till steam appears... And keep on stiring around in the pot, as it really gives a bad smell if the milk burns on the ground of the pot. Don't boil the milk, keep the temperature steady and watch the steam... after a few minutes only you can watch the first clumps of cottage cheese bobbing up! Wait and stir till all the milk has turned "pale" as water and it's surface is covered with the cheesy clumps. These you've got to separate now with your filter-instrument. Leave the cottage cheese in the filter for at least half an hour - after this all the water should be gone. Now add all the stuff you want to your cheese lump and mix it well. For the last step you've got two possibilities:

Either you compress the cheese even more (takes about one night) and just put it like that in a box for the fridge or if you prefer "juicy" cheese, put it in a box as well but with adding brine, till the cheese is covered with it!

And there it is, your own, awfully tasty cheese!

summertime

One thing is for sure: I definitely took too less summer cloths with me. The sun is burning the air over Salakas - the only possibility for some easement is the lake nearby... But with the start of the "tourist-season" it is over with lonely hours (ok, not so lonely with the mosquitos), just starring at the everblue movements of the sky, mirrored in the calm surface of the water. Now: people everywhere, singing, drinking, bathing. Noise and trash! Ok, but we know more places close to the water. And anyhow, next week, there will be the On-Arrival-Training! Rocio and I, we are really looking forward to that one... me especially, as I can really FEEL how my English is falling off in quality!!! Some idle moments together with Rocio allowed me to start learning Spanish ;-)
However, the "homework": our timetable! The last week almost only water-workshops... great. But yesterday the Zalvyne-Festival took place (the one, we digged the toilets for!)! Aaaand: children again! Nobody even wanted to TRY to speak with us, I felt a little bit like a strange alien-creature... anyhow, just listening the singings and watching the dances was hypnotic enough to let this pass by quickly. Today: photos from our cleaning-work! => In the forest and on one of the lakes, cleaning the shores. But I won't bore you anymore, as I feel the desire to visit "mosquito-land" again! See (yome of) you soon!

Kunst&Knete

Our program for the "children-day" on wednesday was a complete success! At least every child had a strange, painted face and fun with our self-made modeling clay... dirt and color for everybody!!!