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Previously on Fab&Vivien around the world
We just started our world trip, which includes a series of crazy bets!
This is their mission:
visiting small grassroots projects and raising money for them
with the support of the global internet community.
Fab & Vivien combine fundraising and music with a crazy bet:
For every 10€ which are donated,
they need 1 person to sing with them in a mass performance.
The more money will be donated, the more people they have to find.
If they won’t make it, a penalty awaits them.
And so we started.
From Berlin we wanted to go to Morocco, but something happened in Spain, Granada.
Also if you have any idea of...
Oh my god!!!
What is this?
Oh my god? What is this?
A message:
"How can you make the world a better place?,
Find out, and Vivien will be back".
Good bye Europe and the importance of patience.
Everything that slows us down and forces patience,
everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature,
is a help.
Hi there and welcome to the second episode of Fab&Vivien around the world.
So I was stuck in Granada and I needed to buy a new car
to go to Morocco, to meet my friend Monir and
to look for the first project to support.
Finding the car wasn´t a problem, I found it,
I went there, testdrived it. It was great.
An ´89 Mercedes with 250.000 kilometers
for a 1200€
But all the rest was a pain in the ***.
I had to get an insurance.
I called the german insurance but they didn´t want to give me one
unless I´d come to germany.
I called the spanish insurances but I needed a NIE
which is a foreigners identification number.
So I went to the immigration office.
At the immigration office they told me I have to be a resident of Granada
and to be a resident you have to go to the town hall.
At the town hall they told me that I have to get
a foreigners identification number to be a resident.
It was like the chicken and the egg!
And so the days passed, and I was angry,
I was wasting time.
It was like climbing a mountain, without knowing how high it is.
But I didn´t surrender.
A german mind against the spanish bureaucracy.
One day particular day I was really angry.
I felt that I was wasting my time.
Later on I went to see my argentinian friend Piqui,
and she gave me this quote from Viktor Frankl:
"When you are no longer able to change a situation,
you are challenged to change yourself"
And after a while this is what happened to me in Granada.
I stopped being angry and started to appreciate other things which were happening to me.
I met amazing people, made new friends,
I could stay for free in a really nice house,
and I got invited to dinners.
It was sort of a transition from my german mindset
which is so used to that everything has to happen according to plans
to a more relaxed, laid back, maybe spanish, southern mindset.
Accepting things as they are.
What first seemed to be wasted time, turned out to be a valuable lesson learned
and a good preparation for the time in Africa.
And then finally, with the help of my new friends, Diego
y la casa carmenes Jesus del gran poder, I made it and bought the car.
♪ ♫ All I need is just a little patience ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ Come on travelers take your time ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ and the things will be just fine ♪ ♫
I got the car!
♪ ♫ all you need is just a little patience ♪ ♫
Good bye Europe and hello Africa!
So I am leaving Europe behind, it´s over there.
You can still see the lights of Tarifa, and I can see the lights of Tangier!
The gate to africa.
May the adventure begin and the quest for an answer to an essential question.
What can I do to make the world a better place?
We see each other in the next Episode!
♪ ♫ Guess I have to take it slow and it´ll work itself out fine ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ All I need is just a little patience ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ Come on travelers take your time ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ and the things will be just fine ♪ ♫
♪ ♫ all we need is just a little patience ♪ ♫