Tuesday, 9/29/15
Our overnight stay at the family farm was a perfect beginning to our emersion in the "Day in the Life of...", an essential part of the OAT experince. We are in the northern agricultural "triangle" of Croatia near the Hungarian and Serbian borders, called Baranje, which means the " mother of wine". After being fed a big farm breakfast with everything either home-grown or home-made, we left our hosts for the town's community center for a talk with a local dairy farm member about the pros and cons experienced in farm production these past few years as Croatia joined the EU. Then off to a beautiful 1600 acre vinyard, followed by a tour of the wine cellers for wine tasting.
Next stop was the local kindergarten (ages 3-6), where we sang and built projects with the children out of chestnuts and acorns and toothpicks. This is the teacher's second generation of teaching the village's children! Grand Circle Foundation (our agency) sponsors this school and is donating funds from us to build a fence for the school grounds.
Our second home-hosted meal of the trip was a lunch of Hungarian style stuffed red peppers, potatoes,and pickled beets, followed by a plum dessert cake. Our hostess grows and roasts peppers, making paprika to sell to markets.
Now for a long nap on th bus as we leave rural life behind and head to the capitol city of Zagreb for the night.
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