Article written by Gonzalo Fernández , developer of mobile applications and digital project manager
How many moments have you had in life where there was a before and after that you have made you another person? What have been, how have you known how to identify them and what led you to be in these situations? Are you able to identify them and step back to see them more clearly and recognize them?
A few months ago I raised whether to return to Fuerteventura (thanks to the edition of remote villages - ancient edition ) or go to the new edition of La Palma (developed in Fuencaliente). Thanks Elsa and Carlos for letting me repeat the experience of remote peoples, this time in the Fuencaliente edition.
Participating in this edition has been transcendental and very emotional. For me, and I think that for some more participant, he has marked a before and after in my life; I notice, I am able to feel it.
How a group of people align and are part of the environment.
We were in Fuencaliente , a remote municipality of the southwest of La Palma . A new and unknown environment for the vast majority of participants (teleworkors) of remote villages; Not so for local actors, broad knowledgeable in the area. Even so, while writing these lines, I kept thinking if the participants were only the teleworkors, but it was not so. The participants of remote villages have been teleworking (Marta, Kang, Juan, Rayco, Ana, María Jesús, Magda, Vera, Dany, Yesssica and me, Gonzalo), the local actors (Gustavo La Palma Herrumb Carlos).
Who has worked with such a large group of people knows how difficult it is to align them with respect to the same objectives. Remote villages, together with the magic of the Bonita Island (if you have passed through there you already call it the Bonita Island; for me it will never be only La Palma ), they have managed to carry out that balance between the activities (to know the environment and the businesses of the local actors), the challenges of local entrepreneurs ( one of the objectives of remote peoples is to create synergies between teleworkors, and local actors, so that during the 21 days, during the 21 days, during the experience, during the 21 days carry out a collaboration between teleworkors, and local actors, to help promote connected rurality and that the businesses of these local entrepreneurs can improve/stabilize/take off ) and the environment .
Each and every one of the people who have lived this experience as a whole know how emotional/transcendental has been. Above all, the last days, where in the feedback session the group twinned with the energy of the Roque Teneguía and all the emotions that had accumulated throughout the experience flourished and flowed . This has been carried out in 21 days where these new habits and those new families are built . Therefore, it hurts to write both those notes that mean a "see you later" (if you ever participate, you will know what I mean in these lines).
'Wearing' logo of the new remote village t -shirts during the feedback session, with the Roque Teneguía in the background, Fuencaliente, La Palma
How some people with business in Fuencaliente open the door of their home, their people, their soul and their life.
How we accompanied Gustavo , while we collected the trash from the Tajea that is on their way to his house and ended up eating ribs with potatoes, pineapple and green mojo, cooked by his partner, as if it were a banquet.
How Vicky led us to his house in the light of the full moon, to water our happiness with wines (that we paired with cheese and figs) while we shared experiences as if we were in a family celebration.
How Juan José (which Patriarch, or grandfather of the family) prepared us a borral, of potatoes and sweet potato, to accompany the rabbit cooked by his wife.
How Jordan guided us to prepare typical sweets, with lemons of our lemon, to make one of the best cake we have tried during our stay in La Palma .
And how Diego guided us for his palm of his hand, to take us to places that probably only a group of people (which I would dare to say that you can count on the fingers of one hand) know family traditions such as eating some old chips freshly fish (accompanied by popes and colm boiled with seawater) all this, watered with wine from the area in the booth where their father and friends enjoy every Wednesday of their company and tradition in front of the sea.
Photo taken during the farewell event of pueblos remotos Fuencaliente
Thank you
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