Revolution Baby

Author:Joanna Gruda
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Europa
Published: 2014-04-06T16:00:00+00:00

It didn’t take me long to learn the customs of the place. The camp was surrounded by vineyards, but we weren’t allowed to pick the grapes, which made it one of our favorite activities. The boys quickly taught me the basics of the art: never pick all your grapes in one place, never leave an entire stock with nothing. And never go to the same place two days in a row. Of course we ate a lot of grapes, but in the long run, you got tired of them. So, we decided we’d try being winemakers. We plucked the grapes from their stems, filled up some buckets, then stood barefoot in the buckets and crushed the grapes. Then we had to strain the mixture through a sieve and bottle it. We lay the bottles down flat underneath our cabin, and every week we would uncork one to taste it. I don’t think our method really worked . . . The concoction didn’t taste very good, so I didn’t manage to make myself drunk. But there were others who did.

Another activity that I enjoyed a lot, and which was perfectly legal, was going to the beach. It reminded me of our expeditions to the canal with the orphanage. We would stand in a line and walk roughly two kilometers, all the way to the sea. We found plenty of things there to keep busy: we smashed oysters against the rocks, observed the seahorses, or caught eels (which we then took back to the chef at the holiday camp). The nice thing about eels was that you could hide one behind your back and then suddenly dangle it in front of one of the girls. Shouts and screams guaranteed!

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