New Farm Sept 1st

SEPT. 1ST

OMG I'm not sure how to describe this farm that I arrived at today.  I can't believe I'll be here for 7 weeks!  I know it's still very new but I certainly won't be working like I did at Palazzo Gallotti.
First of all there are 3 other WWOOFers here; two are leaving next week.  So there will be just me and Jonathan fromBelgium who is 23 yrs. old.  The other 2 WWOOFers are of similar ages.  One is Sanni, girl, from Netherlands and a guy who name escapes me is from Denmark.  So it's a much younger house.  Maria Pia the host is 52.  Her ex-partner, Italo (pronounced eetahlo) also 52 is a chef, makes EXCELLENT bread and since I've only had lunch which they all so graciously waited for me to arrive to have, also makes wonderful food in general. They have a very nice, polite and easy to talk to son named Max.  For lunch we all sat outside, had homemade (everything is) gnocchi with suco from their (our) tomatoes and the most wonderful bread and cherry (pomidorino) tomato salad, wine and fresh fruit.  And we had sautéed eggplant and peppers.  Then Italo's friend the wine maker came.  With wine. Now Italo works at a pizzeria every Fri. and Sat. night in town (San Salvatore) making pizza.  I WILL learn to make really good pizza dough while I'm here.  Anyway, he came with wine, I went out to pick up hazelnuts from what had fallen from the tree in front.  While doing this, I heard really loud music coming from the house thinking it was Sanni listening to some music.  I opened the door to the room where it was coming from and it was Italo and Giuseppe his friend making music using computer generated music and adding to it with a keyboard and vocals.  It sounded awesome!  So all 3 of us sat there making music and drinking Giuseppe's wine!  tonight we are all walking into town to go to a festival to eat, drink and party.  Holly cow!  This is the exact opposite from where I came.  The house is a cement house built by Maria pia's grandfather around the years of 1920 and 1930. It has about a thousand clay pots everywhere, each different and each filled with some flower or plant.  There is no order.  The place is cluttered and very lived in.  Everyone seems to be very content and happy.  Nothing uptight.  You don't have to clean constantly.  But the place could use some straightening up.  But no pressure.  Tomorrow being Sunday, everyone has off from work. There are 5 bicycles to use whenever you want.  Not a 24 speed mountain bike that is perfect.  But a one speed that you don't have to worry about getting dirty.  The gardens have a very wide variety of veggies including many hot peppers. (yah)  Everything they eat is out of the garden and now I get to eat someone else's cooking.  How wonderful!  I'll have my own room for a few days.  Then I'm not sure.