San Ciprián de Hermisende, annex of Hermisende, is one of those geographical points that rarely sound and rarely receive strange visitors. In fact, it is almost more Galicia than Castilla. And there we found 5 confined young people in a house. But they are not 5 young people from the town. They are 4 Fine Arts students and an English conversation assistant.
One is German, Kelian; another is American-Peruvian, Aldo; another Bulgarian, Iana; a berciana, Silvia; and a Galician, Alicia. And they came from Madrid, fleeing the coronavirus, just before the current Alarm State was decreed … More or less in the first week of March, according to Alicia, from Santiago de Compostela, who also assures that they have passed the quarantine and no one has developed the disease.
Of the group, Iana is the only one who shuns the microphone. The young Bulgarian student prefers not to speak, while handling several pieces of modeling clay in her hands, which she models without a definite shape.
They are all in a small room, like a living room, sitting around the fireplace, while outside it did not stop raining. Kelian, the young German, says that their forced coexistence is better than being alone. What make community.
Aldo, with American and also Peruvian nationality, is the only one in the group who does not study Fine Arts (he is an assistant in English conversation and is in the group because he shares a flat with Kelian). So during this confinement he laughs and accepts that he has to serve as a model for his companions.
In the month or so that they have been in San Ciprián de Hermisende, stuck at home, Silvia, from Ponferrada, tells that they spend time following the jobs they are commissioned from the faculty via the Internet and try to continue creating.
Living 5 people in a small space, plus Alicia’s father (to whom the house belongs), is more bearable with a small neighboring garden in which they stretch their legs, because they assure that they have not gone out into the street. They admit that it is a tight coexistence that provides them with new vital and social learning.
They don’t seem to be in a hurry to leave their voluntary retirement. They will return to Madrid when it is announced that everything has happened. Surprisingly, Kelian says that time passes quickly in San Ciprián de Hermisende. Basically, he clarifies, because there is no rush at all.
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