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[QUOTE="peregrina nicole, post: 337158, member: 6549"] Thanks to everyone for the very supportive comments. A very special thank you to t2andreo for his helpful input on working the queue as a Voluntario. This year, Camino Bob is working as a Voluntario and, as his Spanish is very limited, he has been doing what he calls 'pre compostela prep'. He agrees that the 'cow bell' number system does have a comerical aspect, but it does make things run more smoothly. He gets people to get out their credenciales and ID cards before they arrive at the desk and this does speed things up as most people don't write their names clearly on their credencial (and we do want to write your name correctly). We do notice in the office when there isn't someone working the queue as people start to come in as groups rather than one by one. I do think that the letting married couples go in as pairs so that the writing matches seems sensible. I seem to remember that we did this the first year of the Amigo programme. I think that having a water dish for peregrino dogs is a great idea. Camino Bob is going to get one. The point made about full time staff having lives outside of the Oficina del Peregrino is a fair one. Currently the volunteers are on two shifts: 10am to 3pm and 3pm to 8pm. The volunteers leave at 8pm and the courtyard door closes. The paid staff remain until the peregrinos in the courtyard are attended to. Some staff don't get to go home until 9:30pm and then are back before 8am to open up again. t2anddreo is also correct about the waves of peregrinos. There is a pre and post peregrino mass rush. He might be right about the 5pm-7pm lull, but from within the office, we never run out of peregrinos. When I finished my pre-volunteering Camino (see my Live from the Muxia-Fisterraa-Santiago post) I arrived at 5:15pm and only had a 10 minute wait. The people I was talking to today had waited at least 60 minutes. Today (August 27) 1616 peregrinos were given credenciales/certificates of completion. LTfit makes a valid point about Latin names. I think that the French volunteer who was trying to find a Latin translation must have just started writing compostelas. It took me some time to get used to the Latin names on day 1, but I explained to peregrinos that I was trying to find their name. We have a computer document with many of the names and you get quicker at scrolling to the right place. If you are not on the Latin Name document on the computer, we have a book which we an consult. If I can't find a name there, I ask the paid staff as they know most of the names by heart. As I said in my post, I couldn't find Stewart in Latin so I just wrote down Stewart. We also do this for Japanese, Korean and Chinese names. We do get people with Basque or Catalan names. I ask them what the Spanish equivalent would be. I also have some 'cheat sheets'. I have the most common Spanish male and female names with their translations. I also have a sheet with the distances from the most popular starting points. I ask people their motivation as they are filling in the form so I can get started on filling out the correct certificate. I tell people what their Latin name is before I write it down. I have have had a couple of people who have studied Latin point out that the names are in the accusative and not the nomitave case. I took Latin in Secondary School a LONG time ago, so I know what these cases mean. If someone knows enough Latin to correct the book, I put down what they suggest. I did find a n English translation of the compostela: [I]“The Chapter of this Holy Apostolic Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint James, custodian of the seal of Saint James’ Altar, to all faithful and pilgrims who come from everywhere over the world as an act of devotion, under vow or promise to the Apostle’s Tomb, our Patron and Protector of Spain, witnesses in the sight of all who read this document, that: Mr/Mrs/Ms…………………has visited devoutly this Sacred Church in a religious sense (pietatis causa). [/I]Witness whereof I hand this document over to him, authenticated by the seal of this Sacred Church. Given in Saint James of Compostela on the (day) …… (month) …… A.D. ……” I've not yet found a translation of the certificate of completion. I've taken photos of the new credencial, certificate of completion and the distance certificate but still don't know how to post photos. Buen Camino! [/QUOTE]
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