iPod...yeah....

[Jeffrey Crawley]

No, joking with you perhaps :o)

Have you ever seen the movie Groundhog Day?

The life of a hospitalera is just like that:

Rise at about 5.15 - 5.30, go down and put start making the coffee - you'll
have set out the breakfast things the night before.

Cut up the bread, heat up the milk and start boing water for the tea drinkers.

Open the kitchen doors at 6.00 and greet the weary early risers with Gregorian
chant (from a CD).

Answer more questions about the next stage, cut more bread, make more coffee,
tell the pilgrims NOT to bring their packs into the kitchen.

Coerce the more tardy of your 42 guests to leave by about 8am and lock the
front doors.

Heave a sigh, look at the mess your nice, clean kitchen is in, drink some
coffee and set to work.

Change sheets, sweep and mop the tiled floors, scrub the showers and toilets
(unblock if needed - ugh!), collect together the various items of clothing etc.
left behind.

Move any sick pilgrims into the little 4 bed room, make sure they're
comfortable and try not to make too much noise when you're working outside the
door.

10 o'clock! the first pilgrims start to queue outside; you tell them the
refugio isn't open yet unless they are sick or are having problems.

Listen out for the bread van.

Do the laundry, picking up the cigarette butts dropped in the garden.

Grab some lunch, let the hoards in.

Explain the rules as best you can to six or seven differnt nationalities.

Allocate beds, explain that them can't reserve a bunk for a friend "just down
the road"

Keep an eye out on the spin dryer, find more pegs, tend to blisters, heat
prostration and sunburn.

Explain to coach parties of smartly dressed tourists that they cannot just
wander all over the dormitorio as there are pilgrims trying to sleep up there.

4.00pm tea on the terrace (enjoyed equally by the Spanish as the Brits)

Chat to pilgrims, listen to their tales, offer advice if required.

Mass in the church opposite (with Gregorian chant) then dinner and lock up at
10 pm.

Clean the kitchen (again) set up for tomorrow's breakfast.

Go to bed.

Rise at about 5.15, go down and put start making the coffee . . . .

But, Oh, you'll meet the most incredibly wonderful people!!!

Jeffrey

Quoting claudia castellani <claudietta67aHOTMAIL.COM>:

> If you are not joking about me, I can say I would LOVE helping in Rabanal,
> but I dont' know whether I can have holidays in that period.
>
> Claudia


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