Saturday, May 5, 2012
Hungary for dinner
So the new job around here today was a complete shuffle of living space and rooms. Wednesday night two people showed up and joined the crowd. They are Germans and their business is building ikea stores. they are building a new store in Chieti, the capital of the province we live in now. These two German fellows have the contract, but all of their construction workers, subcontracted, are from Hungary. The German guy who is the boss, schteven, is incredible. For instance, instead of getting all the workers hotels he rents them a farmhouse in the countryside! This last weekend the work was getting the lower part of the next door house ready for the German and 6 other hungarians. Once that was done and they arrived things were kosher. Last night though, schteven had another eight workers show up from Hungary, he had rented another agriturismo over the Internet, but once he showed up it was not quite what the website advertised. In response he asked Carlo what the odds were of renting some more property here at the farm. Whatever the odds, they probably weren't as good as the money schteven offered, because this morning we were all informed that we would now be living in the living room, as Carlos sister would takes our room, and more workers would move into the upper part of her house! This morning we packed up and moved in... Or out... Who even knows.... To the living room. Around five the rest of the workers showed up and settled in the house next door. Aside from trying to nap five feet away form the kitchen sink, and changing clothes in the computer room, we really can't complain. As I said the boss is excellent, and for dinner tonight he bought about 5o sausages, lamb, salad, potatoes, beer, 10 liters of wine, bread, and formaggi, and everything else you can imagine. We lit two outdoor fires and cooked all the meat over an open flame. The moon is full and the table is covered in candle light and food. Everyone is happy, STUFFED! And speaking multiple languages.
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