A Typical Week At Anceu Coliving

Andreea Rusu28 July 2021

What does a week look like, A Typical Week At Anceu Coliving?

A Typical Week At Anceu Coliving is full of nature, calm, coworking, food aromas, and memories to remember!

Mondays are upcycling dinners (our volunteer, Tano, cooks with the previous week’s leftovers).

Then we meet to organize the dinner theme and who cooks which night of the week. Everyone writes down the ingredients they need, and we place an online order.

Dinners are always a great opportunity to share ideas about everyday activities we want to do for the coming week. We do that on Mondays too at the family meeting.

The atmosphere is work-oriented from Monday to Friday since some colivers work remotely for companies with traditional schedules.

During the weekdays, we are involved in many social and community activities. In the summer of 2021, for example, we were taking photos for the Inside Out Project and the Rural Hackers project.

Through these projects, we want to make visible the problems arising from the abandonment of rural areas in Spain. We want to create rural opportunities in a sustainable environment with the help of technology and rural and urban communities.

On weekends, the atmosphere is super relaxed. We often have a good brunch together before going to the water falls. Sometimes we go to local places nearby, or just sit home and have fun activities here.

See some activities we have done lately.

Building Websites

A Typical Week At Anceu Coliving Building Websites in the diner

Two heads are better than one… Or, let’s say, dozens!

We are very privileged to have in our house so many talented colivers.

It’s always good to listen to what people say and learn from them.

The other day, all of us had a 30-minute gathering where we discussed how we could improve our website.

We paired in groups and analyzed each part of the website that could be changed or improved. Everybody came up with their suggestions.

Because community is a significant pillar of Anceu, we care what people have to say. For sure, we will consider all of their suggestions and improve along the way.

Crypto-Night

Crypto-Night around the table on the patio

Cryptocurrency was a hot topic in 2021. We love to listen to people talk about what they’re experts in and learn from them.

Questions like:

1. What is cryptocurrency?

2. How many cryptocurrencies are there? What are they worth?

3. Are cryptocurrencies a good investment?

4. What is the future and the potential of cryptocurrency?

5. How can it help to increase economic equality among people?

All of them were answered by our coliver Pablo, an expert in cryptocurrencies who works in the bank sector.

The talk extended more than we had planned.

From people learning for the first time about the crypto world to debates around the topic, everyone enjoyed learning more.

Learning about food

Learning about Ayurvedic food with Nandini and in a Entre Culturas even

Almost every week, we have the fantastic opportunity to connect with local people around Pontecaldelas and learn about new things.

One Friday in July 2021, all the colivers decided to visit Nandini, a lovely and unique woman from India who lived for many years in the United States as a chemistry teacher.

At the time, her goal was to create an open space for people to develop initiatives in the area.

The plan included yoga, dancing, food workshops, music festivals and much more.

She believes in building community and is open to people bringing their ideas and contributing.

That evening, she taught us about the benefits of Ayurvedic food and about maintaining health through close attention to balancing one’s life with the right thinking, diet, lifestyle, and herbs.

Also, she helped us discover our Ayurveda Doshas, which refers to three categories or types of substances that are believed to be present in a person’s body.

Many scholars consider Ayurveda the oldest healing science, and in Sanskrit, Ayurveda means “The Science of Life” Ayurvedic knowledge originated in India more than 5,000 years ago and is often called the “Mother of All Healing.”