Life with Donkeys

Hello everybody,

This time shortly. Well, I’ll try.

Since I moved to this place which is called Donkey Paradise I am very busy but very happy.

I live with 25 donkeys, well they live in the stables and I do have my own beautiful room but still I feel like living with them because I do spend good amount of time just being with them.

In this farm also lives 4 ( at the moment 3, cause 1 moved away) beautiful dogs which every morning and every evening we have to walk them, and it is one of my favourite jobs because I get the opportunity to see beautiful mountains around.

There are also 2 horses, 2 mules and 7 cats which makes this farm look so alive!

Unfortunately I don’t practise my Spanish because it is very international here, woman who created this farm is Dutch and there is also another volunteer Steve from UK. They are amazing people, so hard-working and really inspiring.

We work quite a lot, whole day and every day basically but the work is not that hard. Well, now is the apple picking time so it is a bit hard cause it is very warm but it is manageable, I don’t complain!

We have to feed animals, clean the stables, walk the dogs and…my favourite part to walk donkeys back to their stables!!!! And they listen to me!!!!! I feel like some cool shepherd walking all my donkeys to the stables, haha. It is amazing feeling!!!

The food is fantastic, they are all vegetarians so for me it is paradise. Everyday I fall in love with some new meal and my Beoynce’s ass is not getting smaller I’m afraid J

But in general here the atmosphere is so chilled, if I would want I could be totally lazy and do just a bit and nobody would really tell me a thing but when I see such a hard-working people who work for these beautiful animals I want to do exactly the same. I feel it that my help is very needed because this place would not survive without volunteers.

All day long I spend outside and I really do quite many things so I feel totally isolated from the world and I love it.

Now I am some sort of farmer girl, dirty and wild and that’s the way I like to be. At the moment, haha :)

See you in December,

Much love,

Ligita

Surfer in Xivares, the place where I have stayed before

Nearly blind Katrina

My favourite donkey Sammy

Beautiful and sad face owner Flora

Curious Rosie

Lovely Arvo

The place where I live at the moment

Kanela, Ginger and Pepper all eating from the same bowl

One of the 4 donkeys stable

Arvo and beautiful mountains behind him

My amazing Lady

Funny look Carino

Mara and Kari

Very friendly Chulo

The best behaviour dog in the world porbably, Joly