We arrived on the greek side but are staying in the Turkish side, we had some pick us up at the airport. We finally got a stamp! Let me tell you even though we've Ben traveling around Europe sine January we have only gotten one stamp and that was the one we got when we first landed. Since we've been staying within the EU we haven't been going through customs which means no stamps on our passports. I'm not gonna lie I've been seriously ticked off by not getting stamps! But since we were flying out of the EU we got a stamp! Since we flew into the Greek side we had to pass over the boarder into the Turkish side, which apperently requires a visa, however this was quite the interesting experience for us. Since we had someone pick us up he told us to give him our passports so he could get them checked, you would normally assume that them people checking the passports would need to see the holder of the passport...I guess not. We didn't even need to get out of the car, he got us our "visas" and everything, and when I say visa I'm really not sure what the point of it is, honestly it's a piece of paper with a stamp on it, saying its your visa. So it's all very official...
We arrive at the apartment not quite knowing what to expect since we were volunteering, we weren't sure if it would be nice or not. The apartment itself isn't to bad, there's three other people staying in it with us, two guys and one girl. Kristy and I have our own bedroom, and our own beds! Score! The two guys work on the farm with us, and the girl works at the hotel. It's a pretty sweet set up, we get free accommodation and food, to volunteer on the farm. A few downsides to the apartment, there's no hot water! Which means not warm showers :( the water isn't even like room temp it's freezing! This sucks because we're gonna be working out in the hot sun everyday on a farm which means were gonna need to shower often. Already had to have one shower worst experience of my life. Oh yeah and the shower doesn't drain...
We started our first day of work today, wasn't so bad not as hard as I was expecting which is good. We planted lots of things, dug holes to plant more things, water the plants, walked the dogs, mixed soil, and weeded. It was so nice out today too, which was good warm but not hot so we didn't sweat to death although it will probably be pretty warm if not hot most of the time. Yay! The people who run the farm are just doing it as a hobbie, he owns a few hotels in Cyprus which are very swanky, and she's a model.
Since we're not in the EU anymore we've come across some cool things; they drive on the opposite side of the road, and car, they have their own currency. The driving really creeps me out, it's so weird! It's not so bad on the highway but turning and driving in the city is intense. It's also alot harder to cross the street because usually when doing so you look left then right...not here you have to look right then left. And it's confusing with the cars on the other side of the street. I know it doesn't sound hard but trust me it is. I'm so excited another perk of the volunteering is they take you on excursions every week! Which means were going to get to see lots of the island without having to pay transportation fees! Really we won't have to spend much money at all here because we can go to the hotel and have breakfast lunch and dinner, and we also get free groceries. We make a list and they go and buy everything for us, incase we want to cook our own food at the apartment or what not.
Minus the shower I think this will be a fun three weeks, def a experience that's for sure!
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